I Quotes
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“If you want enlightenment to happen ever, you have to be ready to wait for it. Even if it comes in eternity you are ready to accept it, you are not in a hurry. Then it can come instantly too. A man who is ready to wait forever is very relaxed, knows no tension, no anxiety, no anguish. In that relaxed moment, satori, samadhi, enlightenment is possible.
You attain to enlightenment only when there is no ego to demand - there is no demand, there is no demander.
Time creates the ego. The ego does not exist in animals because they are not conscious of time.
The ego does not exist in children because they are also not conscious of time. When you become conscious of time you become conscious of many things. First, the consciousness of time creates the fear of death. You immediately become conscious of death.
Time and death, they are not separate at all. The moment you become alert about time you become alert about death because time is running out fast, death is coming, death is there and you have to do something before death grabs you. Then fear, anxiety....
In that fear and anxiety, in that impatience, you can go on searching but you will not find. It is not that you have to find God, it is that you have to allow him to find you. So you have to be in a receptive mood, in a non-desiring, non-demanding mood, utterly at ease, as if it has already happened. There is no need for it to happen, it is as if it has already happened. With this silence, this peace, with this non-tense state, it happens.”
“If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.”
“If you want excellence, you have to recognize and reward it. Period.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.”
“If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.”
“If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.”
“If you want fame or wealth or wolves, go out and hunt for them.”
Source: The Last of the Plainsmen
“If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.”
“If you want forgiveness, that means you want to make things right. And if you want to make things right, that means that you don´t intend to put me in harm´s way again. So, if you are saying you´re sorry, I don´t think you understand what that entails.”
Source: Daughter of the Pirate King
“If you want freedom, go get it. If you want comfort, bust your backside for it. If you want change, create it. Better yet, be that change. If you want your dreams to come true, do not sleep. If you are not happy with your life, improve it.”
Source: Know What Matters
“If you want freedom of time, bake freedom of time into the process from the start.”
Source: Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping
“If you want freedom, somebody’s got to fuck a rat.”
Source: Radiance
“If you want freedom, stop waiting for permission and start printing your own ticket.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“If you want freedom, then go for the full bundle.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.”
“If you want friends you must be friendly. Always complaining and posting negative comments is not going to bring you friends. No one likes to get puked on.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“If you want God’s favour, follow His Word. Live a life of faith and you will be favoured.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“If you want God to act SUDDENLY then you’re gonna have to pursue him PATIENTLY!”
“If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.”
“If you want God to bless your relationship, honor God through your relationship.”
“If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.”
Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
“If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.”
“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.”
Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.”
Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.”
“If you want good friends, be one.”
Source: Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”
“If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.”
“If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.”
Source: The Glory of the Garden
“If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.”
“If you want good things, miracles, wonderment - create them with a consistently positive attitude. Life is an amazing gift and every day we experience the wonders of existence, of consciousness.”
Source: Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute
“If you want good things to happen in your life you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.”
“If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.”
“If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk”
Source: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
“If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.”
Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
“If you want gridlock in Washington,then I'm probably not your guy because I'm running a campaign to say I can fix these things because I did it as governor. I have 32 years of business experience and eight years as governor.”
“If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.”
“If you want growth in life and in society, you must scale back the brakes on your desires.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.”
“If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”
“If you want heaven, it is yours ― simply love all”
“If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.”
Source: Writing the Memoir
“If you want her respect, do not disrespect her feelings.”
“If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.”
Source: All the King's Men
“If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.”
“If you want honey you need a hive of bees. But if you were trying to decide if making honey was a good idea, bees would be the last creatures to ask.”
Source: Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
“If you want huge success in your life, play your part and avoid sleeping too much. Work hard. Success is not a gift that falls from the sky.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“If you want immortality, do one thing, burn to ashes in the flames of your purpose.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.”