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“Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.”

“A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.”

Ifs Giving Reason Values Choices Moral Path Our Lives Morality Ethics Roots Slave Definitions Alternatives Code Meaning Of Life No Reason Vacuums Life Means Moral Code Bereft Code Of Ethics

Author:Dave Galanter

“We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.”

Ifs Focus Our Lives Endure Anchors

Author:Renita J. Weems

“Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord’s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God’s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.”

Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States

“That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.”

Ifs Lasts Life Is Our Lives Effects Unimportant

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.”

Ifs Way Looks Has Beens Pain Suffering Compassion Our Lives Sorrow Essentials Findings Tasks Mercy Caught Honestly Exile Wrongdoing

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.”

Ifs Father Jesus Walks Our Lives Glory Glory Of God Places To Live

Author:Louie Giglio

“The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.”

Ifs Children Use Accepting Our Lives Adults Consequence Decided Refuse Abortion Reverse Inevitability

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were.”

Ifs Seems Culture Parent Successful Our Lives Walking Lays Surface Compare Happy Life Blades Criteria Razors

Author:David Foster Wallace

“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Moments Lasts Past Literature Common Teacher Our Lives Reader Husband My Husband Disagree Our Past Last Words Working Life Simpatico

Author:Dorianne Laux

“Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.”

Ifs Use Our Lives Library University

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they`re getting is the best. People don`t like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed.”

People Ifs Knows Kind Decision Our Lives Example Skills Customers Certainty Brands Overwhelmed Marketplace Toothpaste

Author:Tony Robbins

“If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's really just a matter of changing our mind about how we're going to process the events in our lives.”

Ifs Mind Matter Problem Spiritual Energy Process Kindness Our Lives Events Spiritual Energy

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child and the child says, "I hate you," which is a very low energy, and you respond with, "I hate you too," you have lowered the collective energy that you are both in, and both of you will he weakened. Whereas, if you respond to, "I hate you," with love, which is what, instinctively, we know what to do, then we can dissolve and dissipate that hatred.”

Ifs Knows Children Problem Life Is Hate Energy Force Our Lives Example Lows Hatred I Hate Collectives Hate You I Hate You

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.”

Source: Seeds

“If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Our Lives Judging Amount Live By Deceiving Wiser Evaluate Humbling

Author:Paul Washer

“If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.”

Ifs Doe Suffering Faith Religious Our Lives Sorrow Clouds

Author:Oswald Chambers

“We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.”

Ifs Book Moments Lasts Dies Fall Our Lives Irrelevant

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art history doesn't make any sense. The point is, if you have a loving, adorable, supportive mother anywhere in the world and you tell her all of your dreams, all of your aspirations, and the reward you would like, and she understands you, then it's not worth doing.”

Ifs World Humans Art Dream Mother Levels Our Lives Rewards Your Dreams Aspiration Supportive Adorable Art History Specifications

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.”

Ifs Want Bigs Asks Creativity Records Our Lives Streets Grew Drug Grew Up Notes Studios Selling Rapper Selling Drugs

Author:Nicki Minaj

“There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.”

Ifs Looks Long Made Said Done Choices Term Levels Mistake Practice Our Lives Perspective Terrible Blessing Brilliant Disaster Dumb Long Term Length

Author:Richard Bach

“"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.”

Ifs Asks Loses Decision Worry Our Lives Highest Lots Of Money

Author:Richard Bach

“People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.”

“Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.”

Ifs Should Motivational Life Is Loses Wealth Our Lives Faith In God Cheerful Keep Smiling

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Kind I Can Happens Our Lives Imagine Journey Billions Radical Just One Dimensions Extensions Looking Forward Linear One Line

Author:Barry Ptolemy

“We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.”

People Ifs Way Looks Different Artist Speak Our Lives Painting Trauma Landscape Different Ways Beginning Of Life

Author:Christian Boltanski

“If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.”

Ifs Way Sometimes Laughing Our Lives Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mehmet Oz

“Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Light Turns Sides Dark Our Lives Journey Dark Side

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish!”

Ifs Spirit Sports Our Lives India Our Society Significance Nurture Sportsman Sportsman Spirit

Author:Narendra Modi

“We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.”

Ifs Knows Children Water Know How Knowing Our Lives Survival Crosses Incredibles Australia Live By Swim Not Knowing

Author:Eric Bana

“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.”

Ifs Looks Persons Has Beens Hands Attention Cases Issues Our Lives Crazy Crime Serious Like You Tough Victim Harm Honestly

Author:Bill James

“If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.”

Ifs Spirituality Answers Steps Our Lives Doors Awareness Higher Transformed Step Up Celestine Prophecy

Author:James Redfield

“We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.”

Ifs Knows Facts Steps Our Lives Conditions Disease Associates Ageing Often Is Delayed

Author:Julie Bishop

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“Affirmations are quality ideas and quality thoughts. The quality of our thoughts reflects the quality of our life. Hence, if we were to raise the quality of our thoughts, we would automatically improve the quality of our life Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth Using affirmations on a daily basis is one of the easiest things we can do to change our lives.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Ideas Can Do Quality Our Lives Bases Raises Our Thoughts Affirmation

Author:Robert Anthony

“It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives. We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.”

“If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Want Hard Life Is Belief Effort Struggle Our Lives Hard Work Effort And Hard Work

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.”

Ifs World Self Christian Life Is Spirit Courses Religious Poverty Our Lives Humility Affection Denial Heavenly Renunciation Self-denial World Poverty

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives - in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles - we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if they matter less. But I don't think they matter less.”

People Ifs Thinking Soul Matter Body Care Forget Our Lives Battle These Days Washing

Author:Susan Fletcher

“The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.”

Ifs Done Our Lives Risk Ready Our Family Not Ready Great Commission

Author:John Piper

“I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.”

Ifs Inspirational Looks Different Inspiration Our Lives Hair Circumstances Powerless

Author:Martha Beck

“I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each of us as an individual creates a life - we draw to us certain people and events and circumstances that reflect what's going on inside of us, so we can literally look at our life and see a mirror of our own consciousness. And if that's true on an individual level, it's also true that what's going on in the world in a bigger way is a reflection of the collective consciousness.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Looks Certain Individual Levels Consciousness Our Lives Events Circumstances Draws Reflection Bigger Mirrors Collectives Collective Consciousness

Author:Shakti Gawain

“In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.”

Ifs World Needs Certain Values Given Goal Half Focus Our Lives Amount Quiet Okay Western Just Being Western World Being Quiet

Author:Shakti Gawain

“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Ifs Enemy Our Lives Violence Method Plot Robbers Protecting Ourselves

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.”

Ifs Ideas Nations Our Lives Goodness Loyal Dictionary True Ones

Author:Max Eastman

“Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.”

People Ifs Thinking Joy Numbers Our Lives My Family Function Related Grandchildren Joy And Happiness My Grandchildren

Author:Mitt Romney

“The Saints in Heaven through the Holy Spirit behold the glory of God and the beauty of the Lord's Countenance. But in this same Holy Spirit they see our lives too, and our deeds. They know our sorrows and hear our burning prayers. When they were living on earth they learned of the love of God from the Holy Spirit; and he who knows love on earth takes it with him into eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven, where love grows and becomes perfect. And if love makes one unable to forget a brother here, how much more must the Saints remember and pray for us!”

“I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.”

People Ifs Want Years Facts School Our Lives Team Football Band Access Hated Scream Football Team Best Year Leper

Author:Trent Reznor

“If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.”

Ifs May Easy Simple Space Emotion Our Lives Awareness Complicated Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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