I Quotes
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“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”
“If the mind fits, shrink it.”
Source: Cartoonist's Book Camp
“If the mind is a cacophony, the subconscious is silent theatre.”
Source: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.”
“If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.”
“If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.”
“If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.”
“If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.”
“If the mind is not ready to add new information to its network, then it is impossible to charge it with such information. Therefore, the learning process begins with the inner, not the outer world. In this context, the external world functions only as a complementary phenomenon.”
“If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.”
“If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.”
Source: Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
“If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”
Source: On War: Volume 1
“If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.”
“If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.”
“If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.”
“If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.”
“If the mind wanders, bring your awareness back to the breath as it expands and contracts, and expand your awareness in all directions around you from there.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.”
“If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.”
Source: The Running Dream
“If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.”
“If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.”
Source: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
“If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.”
“If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'”
“If the moderates of the white South fail to act now, history will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people, Our generation will have to repent not only for the acts and words of the children of darkness but also for the fears and apathy of the children of light.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.”
“If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.”
“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”
Source: BioShock: Rapture
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is that the trumpet of true Christianity, the challenge of the charities and simplicities of Bethlehem or Christmas Day never rang out more arrestingly and unmistakably than in the defiance of Athanasius to the cold compromise of the Arians. It was emphatically he who really was fighting for a God of Love against a God of colourless and remote cosmic control; the God of the stoics and the agnostics. It was emphatically he who was fighting for the Holy Child against the grey deity of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. He was fighting for that very balance of beautiful interdependence and intimacy, in the very Trinity of the Divine Nature, that draws our hearts to the Trinity of the Holy Family. His dogma, if the phrase be not misunderstood, turns even God into a Holy Family.”
Source: The Everlasting Man
“If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.”
Source: The King of Rhyme
“If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable.”
Source: The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
“If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.”
“If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If the money wasted on arms could be used to help the less developed nations, that would probably be a greater blow against the Communist danger than anything else.”
“If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.”
“If the money's right, I'll do a film.”
“If the monster knocks twice, don’t open the door to prove you’re brave. Close it—because now, you’re free.”
Source: At 36: A Year That Broke Me Open — and Put Me Back Together
“If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.”
“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.”
“If the moon can rise after disappearing into darkness, so can you rise after any fall.”
“If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?”
Source: What if we're faeries?
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
Source: Ariel
“If the Moon wants to show its beauty to the world, it must make a deal with the wind to disperse the clouds!”
“If the Moon were a place like the Earth, it would be necessary not to allow human habitation there and to leave it completely out of civilization; maybe just day trips from earth to that blue moon!”
“If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.”
“If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.”
“If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.”
Source: The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel
“If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what do we conclude from that? We conclude exactly what Kissinger was kind enough to say: These doctrines are unilateral. They are not intended as doctrines of international law or doctrines of international affairs. They are doctrines that grant the U.S. the right to use force and violence and to harbor terrorists, but not anyone else.”