I Quotes
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“If only you can read me the way I read poetry.”
“If only you could be yourself." they shouted. So, she did. "You are not like me or anyone I have met!" they screamed. So, she blended. "You are so fake." they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.”
“If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!”
“If only you could go out of your mind with love before you leave this place, you would
be prepared for Heaven.”
“If only you could hear
the sound of snow”
Source: Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin
“If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend.”
“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“If only you
could see me as the Devil does:
palatable & raw;
chasing a chance blue moon”
“If only you could see me, you would see the dark whispering in my ear. But the dark is no match for my light born of the fire raging within.”
Source: Finding Their Way Home
“If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems, you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.”
“if only you could see through my eyes at the life that I've lived and if only you could think through my thoughts & hear every word that was said and seen and how it made me feel as all of those words were forced down my ears and stabbed in my chest were my heart used to be.. then and only then would you know why I hide myself so deep in the dark parts of the abyss that became my home and its the place where I can go where my heart is safe from a world that didn't care if my feelings were hurt or if they loved me for what I'm not or tried to kill me for not being their carbon copy illusion of what they thought was normal and if only you walked along side of me through it all then you would understand my choices & not hate my mistakes.”
“If only you'd give in.... to the longing inside...you would hear your deepest cry.....if only you'd give in.... to your ache inside...you would feel your unshed tears.....if only you'd give in...to the yearnings unmet.....you would meet yourself......tender and fierce....soft and wild...for you are the light when dawn breaks in sky...you are the dark when sun comes down...”
“If only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be—unutterably—contained in what has been uttered”
“If only you knew all the gifts that you bring to others. You would never feel sad again.”
“If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is breathe?”
Source: Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
“If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.”
“If only you knew who you really were you would be fearless and love yourself with a grand passion! You are a unique shard of God, the Universe, the whole or whatever label you would like to call it. No one can take your place and without you endless synchronicity and evolution would not happen. You are so powerful that just by walking down the street you can change someone's life forever.”
“If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.”
“If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting, it's only they who are wanted. The more of such people there are, the sooner the Kingdom of God will come on earth. Of your town then not one stone will be left, everything will he blown up from the foundations, everything will be changed as though by magic. And then there will be immense, magnificent houses here, wonderful gardens, marvellous fountains, remarkable people.... But that's not what matters most. What matters most is that the crowd, in our sense of the word, in the sense in which it exists now -- that evil will not exist then, because every man will believe and every man will know what he is living for and no one will seek moral support in the crowd. Dear Nadya, darling girl, go away! Show them all that you are sick of this stagnant, grey, sinful life. Prove it to yourself at least!”
“If only you would kiss me.
Press your lips to mine like a searing iron. Wrap me in your arms as if you were a monarch claiming a kingdom. Hold me close until I warm through to the core. Do this, and I promise to melt into you, no longer a cold and frozen figure in your narrowed sight. How devoted I would be if only your lips burned for mine!
If only you would kiss me.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me,
If only your heart ever, craves for me or my presence…
If only you feel that love again someday for me,
If only you are affected someday by my absence…
Only you can end all my suffering and this unbearable pain,
If only you would know what you could never procure…
If only you go through the memories of past once again,
Since the day you left my heart has bled, no one has its cure…
If only you would bring that love, those showers and that rain…
If only you would come back and see what damage you create,
I’ve been waiting for your return since forever more…
If only you would see the woman that you have made,
You said we cannot sail through, how were you so sure?
If only you can feel the old things that can never fade,
You may have moved on, but a piece of my heart is still with you…
I know how I’ve come so far alone; I know how I’m able to wade,
People say that I’m insane and you won’t ever come back again…
Maybe you would have never made your separate way,
Maybe you would have stayed with me and proved everyone wrong…
If only you would know the pain of dying every day,
If only you would feel the burden of smiling and being strong…”
Source: Chained: Can you escape fate?
“If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can’t speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your ability. Don’t wait for his words, just look and see!”
“If only your eyesight was worse, so anything close up would be nothing more than a vague, forgiving blur. But there is nothing vague about what you have to face now.”
Source: Human Acts
“If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.”
“If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.”
“If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.”
“If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only”
Source: Holes
“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.”
Source: Holes
“If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.”
“If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.”
“If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.”
Source: Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress
“If only. The saddest two words in any language.”
Source: Shotgun Wedding
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
Source: Exile's Valor
“If only…the saddest words in the English language.”
“If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.”
“If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.”
“If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.”
“If opportunities don’t open the door, then learn to manufacture the key.”
“If opportunity doesn’t call, call opportunity and keep calling until someone answers.”
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.”
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.”
“If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.”
“If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!”
“If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.”
Source: The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
“If or when you feel like you’re suffocating in your own thoughts, beliefs and circumstances you can either stay there and be buried alive, meaning you become numb, you become mentally and spiritually dead to your life and the world, or keep digging and sorting through your thoughts, circumstances and beliefs until you break through to the other side, until you see light and you’re free. See the light in the sense of clarity. You’ll come through no longer carrying the things that weighed you down because they could not fit through the journey you’ve made to your healing.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.”
“If orangutans can treat their rest like an art form, maybe we can put a little more effort into our sleep routines too.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction