I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.”
“If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)”
“If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.”
Source: Foundation and Earth
“If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.”
“If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.”
“If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.”
“If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference. ("Morning after")”
“If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.”
Source: Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
“If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours.”
Source: It Takes a Village
“If we only thought of our feet as we walk, we'd miss everything else.”
“If we only trust in our own abilities and knowledge, we can get some results; but if we really want to get great results that impact society, we need to work with God.”
Source: The apostle Matthew's chapter 24 compared with the prophet Nostradamus' prophecies
“If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.”
Source: Whispers of Hope: 10 Weeks of Devotional Prayer
“If we only use one perspective, we'll have a wonky house of cards.”
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
“If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
“If we open our hearts to give love we are immediately transported into the joy and blessings of love.”
“If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe.”
Source: Believe: Like You Mean It
“If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.”
“If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.”
Source: Thrift
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.”
“If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.”
“If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.”
“If we opt, over and over, to surrender our valuable energy and time to people and things that hold no real value and, worse, separate us from the people and things that do, the joke’s on us and we have only ourselves to blame.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If we opt to mute the voices of the present and those who lived long ago, then the residue of the past is bound to be inherited by our future.”
“If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace.
This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.”
Source: My Tibet
“If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.”
“If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.”
“If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.”
“If we own the story then we can write the ending.”
“If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor”
“If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.”
“If we parallelize quantum mechanics with reality, then we should consider more information than what we perceive as probable and as reality.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.”
“If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.”
“If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.”
Source: Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
“If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.”
Source: Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return
“If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.”
“If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.”
“If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.”
“If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.”
Source: To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society
“If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.”
Source: Page: Book 2 of the Protector of the Small Quartet
“If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?”
“If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.”
“If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.”
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
“If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.”
“If we plant them, they will come.”
Source: Adventures in Letterboxing: Tales of a Secret Hobby
“If we play an active role in becoming REAL, we’ll look back at how far we’ve come and be proud of the journey; if we play a passive role and just let things happen, then we’ll look back with regret at what we think we ‘lost’.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.”