I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is often the easiest move that completes the game.”
“It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.”
“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“It is often the fast-thinking, bias-riddled, adrenalised, dehumanising part of our brain that tweets. It is the slow-thinking, contemplative, creative, self-aware, humanising part of our brain that makes art.”
Source: You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious
“It is often the job of the advert to highlight the product’s strengths and the target audience’s weaknesses.”
“It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“It is often the moments of silence that strengthen the friendship between two people. When friendship is bound by companionship… intertwined with love, secured by mutual understanding…”
“It is often the parishioners, the men and women in the pews, who set the tone.”
Source: Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe—and Started the Protestant Reformation
“It is often the safe and timid man who criticizes everything equally rather than actually taking a stance because taking a stance would make him subject to scrutiny.”
“It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“It is often the way of the world that goodness is often repaid with badness.”
“It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“It is often thought that spirits in the after-world do not breathe as we might do - and that in being dead, one does not require inhaling and exhaling anything.
Well, they do exchange ethers, and the body of a soul does in fact breathe, and talk and sing - though not with oxygen, but a rarefied vitality. And just as a newborn, the very first impulse that comes when one crosses over to the other side, past the veils of death, is to inhale deeply - and then relax.”
Source: Azlander: Second Nature
“It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.”
“It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.”
Source: Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities
“It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.”
“It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required”
“It is often too late by the time the government reacts.”
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.”
Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”
Source: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious
“It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.”
“It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”
“It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are," Benedict said, his tone amused. "It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.”
“It is often what we cannot see that matters the most.”
“It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change; when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.”
“It is often while travelling through the dark that you find the ones who shine brightest in your life. For they are the ones who remind you of your own beautiful light and show up, without a second thought, in your pain, as well as your glory.”
“It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.”
Source: The Pharaoh's Secret
“It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.”
“It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply!”
“It is OK not to be OK..It is ok to be tired, angry & sad..Then we reflect & decide to rise like a Phoenix!”
“It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.”
“It is OK to be sad, hurt and to worry but you must drop the load and believe in yourself and dream big again.”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
“It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.”
“It is ok to not be ok. Yes, but it is not ok to feel ok about it, and definitely it is not ok to do nothing about it.”
“It is ok to question yourself, but never ok to doubt yourself.”
“It is ok to recognize when you need a timeout. It is ok to guard your mental health like a fortress and to shut the gates when it is time for a break.”
Source: How the Light Comes In: A memoir of hope and healing on the path with anxiety.
“It is okay even if the pain never really disappears but doubles at the worst. It is okay when you remember unexpected moments- just like when remembering the good times that you spent together at a certain place. It is okay cringing when your favorite song sneaks up on you on your own playlist or worse—when you are at a public place and either Taylor Swift or Adele suddenly starts crooning incredibly tear-jerking lines over the loudspeakers. I hope you did not forget your value yet, because I know you are always finding yourself trying to prove your worth as a human being. I hope you become the fairy tale princess who will never lose faith in her prince. One day, things will not be as rough as this anymore and it will get smoother and better in time.”
Source: In Love and In Heartbreak: collected stories of the heart
“It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.”
Source: The Painter: A novel
“It is okay for your weakness to be exposed to the light. The light is there because your weakness doesn’t serve you anymore. You are brave and you are letting it go…”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“It is okay if you change every once in a while; even the sky needs to let go of its stars
to give the sun a home for a while.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“It is okay if you do not believe me, as my belief system is not based on your lack of understanding.”
“It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.”
“It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.”
“It is okay to be a person who is still healing. The truth is that we always will be. It is a forever practice, it is that forever kind of love with yourself.”
“It is okay to be a really good mom that loves her kids and also every month need a cool girls night out. It will make you a better mom to blow off steam.”
“It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.”
“It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.”