I Quotes
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“If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.”
“If you practice with genuine trust, you will attain the way, regardless of being sharp or dull.”
Source: The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
“If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.”
“If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.”
“If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.”
Source: Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul
“If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self-esteem is low.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
“If you praise the virtues of the person who is two degrees higher than you, if you worship him, if you serve him; this is known as aradhana (veneration; worship). If you say bad things about him, defame him; it is known as viradhana (despise). Viradhana (despise) results in your down fall and aradhana (worship) results in your rise upwards.”
“If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.”
“If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.”
“If you pray for a fish, you will get one. If you pray for a net, you will be able to catch a thousand.”
“If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.”
Source: Get Rich Collection
“If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.”
Source: Approaching Zion
“If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.”
“If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.”
Source: Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By
“If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool)”
“If you pray for thy neighbour, sow a seed of love in thy heart.”
“If you pray for thy neighbour, you sow a seed of love in thy heart.”
“If you pray, God will hear you.”
“If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!”
“If you pray more you will pray better.”
“If you pray with your knees bow, you surrender to God.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“If you pray, you can endure any pain.”
“If you pray, you find power to act.”
“If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.”
Source: The Purpose of Christmas
“If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd have nothing to worry about.”
“If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.”
“If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.”
Source: Let's Go Soul Winning
“If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion
“If you prefer sitting in traffic to sitting at your desk, if you pass office hours waiting for closing time, if you spend more time on Facebook than you do attending to important emails then perhaps it's time for you to consider quitting your job.”
Source: Welcome to Lagos
“If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.
No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.
For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.
So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.
Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.”
“If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.”
“If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.”
“If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.”
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.”
“If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.”
“If you present yourself as food, you will be eaten”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“If you press a trickster to show themselves, you will find a reliable phenomenon quiet at once. The trickster will pop out from behind the rock and laugh at your disgrace once the crowd has dispersed.”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.”
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.”
“If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day have the ideal that I want my work to be not too expensive, so that if people buy it and break it, it's not going to be the end of the world. I'm not interested in having things in museums, although some of our work has ended up there, but that's not what I'm striving for.”
“If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.”
“If you pretend abundance when in fact you are in need, those who would aid you will not because they will either believe you to be abundant or recognize your pretense and consider you to be unworthy.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.”
Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“If you pretend that you know what you are doing, a large group of people will blindly follow you”
Source: Crazy Is My Superpower: How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules
“IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.”
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“If you pretend to care and understand only to get inside the person's pants, then you may succeed temporarily to achieve penetration, but you won't succeed in having a lasting penetration into the person's psyche. And without a penetration into the psyche, no relationship can last long.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“If you pretend to feel nothing, the pretence may become true. said Jem. That would be a pity.”
Source: Son of the Dawn