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“You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on earth can help you too. When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.”
“You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.”
“You can focus your mind. You can respect your body. All of that is important.”
“You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.”
Source: Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace
“You can follow a guide for a while, but never walk for too long, because the goal is not to progress under the leadership of a guide, but to become a guide yourself, determine your own path, and try to become a different guide, possibly a superior one!”
“You can follow advice, you can follow your best plan and you can follow the rules and you can follow others, but in the end you can't really follow anything but your heart.””
“You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.”
“You can follow your soul purpose even when you're tired, hungry, lonely, not your best self, not dressed in your finest or otherwise indisposed. Doing what you are here to do will light up your life on every level.”
Source: Reading the Soul
“You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.”
“You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.”
“You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.”
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four”
“You can fool most of the people most of the time.”
“You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.”
Source: Aesop in the afternoon
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.”
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.”
Source: Puckoon
“You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.”
“You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.”
“You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.”
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
“You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.”
“You can forge anything these days, and we're living in a fake news era.”
“You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.”
“You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.”
“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.”
“You can forget how to hate, but you can never forget how to love.”
“You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.”
“You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.”
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.”
“You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.”
“You can forgive someone and still think they are an asshole. Forgiveness doesn't change what a person is, it only changes you.”
“You can forgive without returning. You can heal without staying. You can love without losing yourself again.”
Source: The Choice to Heal: A Memoir of Breaking the Cycle
“You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.”
“You can frame a moment. But you can´t frame life.”
“You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.”
“You can frequently observe inspiration at work in children who are overtired. They are sometimes so extremely overtired that they seem to be wide awake. Suddenly they start telling a story as if they are finding words they haven't yet learned. They have, though; the words and the ideas have lain 'latent' in their consciousness, but now, when all caution and all censorship have let go, they are surfacing.”
Source: Sophie’s World
“You can fulfill what the Lord called you to do and for you to fulfill this mission, there must be no impediments”
“You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.”
“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.”
“You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.”
“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!”
“You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.”
“You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.”
“You can gain self-confidence, with the prayerful life, reading and mediation on the Scripture.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!