I Quotes
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“IF ONE THINKS MONEY IS HIS STRENGTH, HE IS THE POOREST PERSON ON THE EARTH;
IF ONE THINKS POWER IS HIS STRENGTH, HE IS THE NAIVEST PERSON ON THE EARTH;
IF ONE THINKS PLEASURE IS HIS STRENGTH, HE IS
THE SADDEST PERSON ON THE EARTH;
IF ONE THINKS REVENGE IS HIS STRENGTH, HE IS THE WEAKEST PERSON ON THE EARTH;
IF ONE THINKS NUMBER ONE IS HIS STRENGTH,
HE IS THE LONELIEST PERSON ON THE EARTH;
IF ONE THINKS LOVE IS HIS STRENGTH, HE IS THE WILDEST PERSON ON THE EARTH”
“If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.”
“If one thinks of sex and sexual act in isolation, then they become a problem…Thus sex becomes a sacrilegious act only if we divorce it from [spirituality.]”
“If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.”
“If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.”
“If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.”
“If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.”
Source: The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
“If one totally accepts reality as being the only physical concept then one is denying the existence of imagination.”
“If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck”
“If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.”
“If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.”
“If one truly wants to live, they need to open their heart to others, and I have. No matter what comes next for me, I know now I loved and was loved in return.”
Source: Go the Distance
“If one trusts solely to brave generals who love fighting, this will cause trouble. If one relies solely on those who are cautious, their frightened hearts will find it difficult to control the situation.
Now the method of employing men is to use the avaricious and the stupid, the wise and the brave, and to give responsibility to each in situations that suit him. Do not charge people to do what they cannot do. Select them and give them responsibilities commensurate with their abilities.
He who relies on the situation uses his men in fighting as one rolls logs or stones. now the nature of logs and stones is that one stable ground they are static; on unstable ground, they move. If square, they stop; if round, they roll.”
Source: The Art of War
“If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.”
“If one understands love and respect for others; it applies that, practically upon its character first; otherwise, it defines false reality.”
“If one understands (realizes) his own Self, then he himself is an Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).”
“If one understands that worldly life is the result of scientific circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit); then that will reduce many of one’s miseries.”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice
“If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.”
“If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.”
“If one views police as sophisticated agents who have effectively infiltrated and repressed progressive social movements for 150 years, then their violence and spying on 2020 protesters cannot be mystified as anomalous or the result of a lack of "preparation," "training," or "resources." And you can see the obfuscation in one of the most glaring omissions in the articles: they make no acknowledgment that police committed many thousands of intentional crimes. If the news acknowledged those acts as crimes, it would have to turn a piece about a lack of "training" into one about why police, prosecutors, and federal authorities in virtually every city largely chose to ignore those crimes. And what would that story get people thinking about?”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“If one views themself as a type of "System Vessel," they come to see the value of system equilibrium. System equilibrium means if your consumption of energy removes negativity while your output product contributes positivity, even if only the tiniest little bit, then you are effectively "Saving the World.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.”
Source: Letters
“If one wanted beauty, one had only to rest one's eyes on her, so fine and old and lovely, like an ivory carving; flowing down like water into her chair, so slight and supple were her limbs, the firelight casting a flush of rose over her features and snowy hair. Youth had no beauty like the beauty of an old face; the face of youth was an unwritten page. Youth could never sit as still as that, in absolute repose, as though all haste, all movement, were over and done with, and nothing left but waiting and acquiescence.”
Source: All Passion Spent
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
Source: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
“If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".”
“If one wants a symbol of Atlantic man, as opposed to Mediterranean man, a symbol to set against the Greek temple, it is the Viking ship. The Greek temple is solid, static, crystalline; the Viking ship is light, mobile, and voyaging, floating like a water lily.”
Source: Civilisation
“If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.”
Source: Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough
“If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable.
One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state.
If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts,
will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“If one wants to act, the dilemma is how and where; there is no "when?" with time running out, the time is obviously now.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.”
“If one wants to be called a queen, one should act with civility and grace.”
“If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.”
Source: Becoming Madame Mao
“If one wants to go to moksha (Ultimate Liberation), then one will have to ‘everywhere adjust’.”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.”
“If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still”
Source: Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of
“If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed
there; that is tapas.”
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.”
“If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.”
Source: The pleasures of music
“If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.”
“If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'”
“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”
“If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.”
“If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.”
“If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.”
“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”
“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.”
“If one were to ask if Linus Baker was lonely, he would have scrunched up his face in surprise. The thought would be foreign, almost shocking. And though the smallest of lies hurt his head and made his stomach twist, there was a chance he would still say no, even though he was, and almost desperately so.
And maybe part of him would believe it. He'd accepted long ago that some people, no matter how good their heart was or how much love they had to give, would always be alone. It was their lot in life, and Linus had figured out, at the age of twenty-seven, that it seemed to be that way for him.
Oh, there was no specific event that brought along this line of thinking. It was just that he felt. . . dimmer than others. Like he was faded in a crystal-clear world. He wasn't meant to be seen.”