I Quotes
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“If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”
“If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.”
“If a person relies too much on authority outside of themselves, it is very easy to lose yourself in that routine. That routine ‘in time’ becomes unconscious and those unconscious beliefs become invisible to the self. These unconscious beliefs then create bridges to a certain kind of understanding, but they also block you from perceiving other possibilities. If that external authority and those unconscious beliefs are never examined, then we can become imprisoned within cages that were created by others.”
Source: The Art of Transmutation
“If a person's emotions were lumps of dough, I would stretch my fondness for someone, if I ever fell in love, as long and thin as possible. As long and thin as a strand of noodle rolled out by a very capable pair of hands. Anger is the only thick, short burst of emotion I need in my life.”
Source: Piekarnia czarodzieja
“If a person’s hair smells bad and sweaty, imagine how the rest of them smells. Don’t be that person.”
Source: sciVive
“If a person’s inner life gets disturbed, his outer life will get disturbed too and he will fail to reflect his inner life to the outer world”
“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”
“If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.”
“If a person shows anger to you, and you show anger in return, the result is disaster. If you nurse hatred, you will never be happy, even in the lap of luxury. By contrast, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance, and patience - then not only do you remain in peace, but gradually the anger of others also will diminish.”
Source: How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
“If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.”
Source: Balancing acts: essays
“If a person sins when they kills another person, why is it that they do not sin when they kill a beast?”
Idalina looked across at her, frowned slightly and then shrugged.
“They do.”
“But people do not speak of it as sin,” the girl persisted.
“No,” Idalina said. “That is because people do not see themselves in the beasts as they do in other people. If they did, they would say that it is the same.”
Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“If a person starts a wildfire, it is called ‘arson’. If a corporation starts a wildfire, it is called a ‘normal aspect of business’.”
“If a person stays in the dark long enough, his sight adjusts, and he no longer realizes he is in the dark. He thinks he can see." Uncle Henry”
Source: Working for Uncle Henry
“If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.”
Source: Guide for the perplexed
“If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.”
“If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.”
“If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.”
“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.”
“If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.”
“If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .”
“If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.”
“If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.”
“If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.”
“If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.”
“If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and if there's something about the system that's keeping him from getting his share, then I think he's well within his rights to fight to change that.”
“If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.”
“If a person wants to do something he should do 100/100 Things to make that happen, Just think what happens if you don't eat well, you'll end up feeling hungry”
“If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.”
“If a person wants to walk on the path of the Vitrag (Enlightened Ones), he should turn the upayog (applied awareness) from bad to good. And if the person wants to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), he should keep shudha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self). The person who wants to attain moksha should not get into the intricacy of good or bad, and should keep them both as things to be ‘discharged’.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone had him on tape calling someone the n-word or whatever - and then you fast forward and he feels, Oh, back then I didn't say this or that. He's not thinking about the person that he hurt when he said what he said, or however it came out, or the effects that it could have had. He's not thinking about it. He's thinking about his own self and how he feels.”
“If a person were to ask me what I saw South, I should tell him stink weed, sand, rattlesnakes, and alligators. To tell the honest truth, our boys out on picket look sharper for snakes than they do for rebels.”
Source: On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
“If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.”
“If a person who grew up in an unhappy family cannot reprogram the sub consciousness he will not be able to create a strong marital union in the future”
“If a person who has come to the edge of the abyss does not go further, it is because things in that person's life stronger than that abyss are pulling him back powerfully!”
“If a person who has dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) attains an instrument such that it helps him aquire the Knowledge of the Self (Gnan), then it is worthwhile; otherwise dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) brings about lifelessness.”
Source: The Science of Money
“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”
Source: Deathkiller
“If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!”
“If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”
“if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.”
“If a person wishes to engender self-improvement, they must eschew conventional norms and seek an authentic conversation with the self. I need to acknowledge all my ugly warts and attempt to use the conscious mind to trace my lowly state of existence devoted to pleasure seeking and self-glorification. I can give into the dismal implications of all the years I labored in foolish vocational and recreational pursuits or labor to transform former suffering into a creative force. I seek to convert the toxic tears of bitterness into a healing serum by cultivating an artistic approach to life. Cheerfully living in exile and embracing solitude creates personal space needed to flourish.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.”
“If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.”
Source: The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation
“If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.”
“If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.”
“If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.”
“If a PhD shows the completion of education or a course, then you don't need it in theology. You don't need it to know God either.”
“If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.”
“If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”
Source: The Unretouched Woman