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“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Left Laughing Path Demand Findings Bitter Shocked Leather Scrap Workshops Carpenter Cucumbers Sawdust

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.”

Ifs Long Turns Individual Path Deserve Divides Deviate Somali

Author:Siad Barre

“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.”

Ifs Thinking World Heart Reality Joy Wonder Steps Path Flower Walking Mindfulness Machines Opposites Infinite Engaged Village Enabling

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.”

Ifs Feels Path Fabulous

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.”

Ifs Way Should Book Ends Care Turns Path Taken Cutting Written Prove Discovery Mark Leaving Forests Subtle Twigs

Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

“We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.”

Ifs Needs Hard Certain Perfect Path Imagine Including Unhappy Happy Life Imperfect Unhappy Life Imperfect Things

Author:Richard Rohr

“[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.”

Ifs Writing Play Walks Path Forests Knives Compass Geography Right Place Clearing

Author:Neil Simon

“You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.”

Ifs Path Cutting Flexible Bait

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.”

Ifs Firsts Reason Reality Might Running Courses Waiting Difficult Perfect Vision Path Concepts Defeat Bars Gaps Where You Are Formulas Instruction Paragraph Sample

Author:Seth Godin

“You might be a redneck if your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded.”

Ifs Might School Class Path Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Redneck Humor Restroom

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.”

Ifs Helping Stories Dream Might Able Passion Felt Path Helping Others Fulfilling Lectures

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us.”

Ifs Thinking Real Earth Together Stars Animal Sun Path Moon Plant Working It Real Work Unintelligent

Author:Jane Caputi

“We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.”

People Ifs World Littles Sometimes Helping Suffering Path This World Painful Little Help

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.”

Ifs Feels Should Stills Important Jesus Can Do Path Progress Humble Defined True Power

Author:Pope Francis

“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

“I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.”

Ifs World Wanted Goal Careers Path Calling Accomplish Agency Modeling Career Goals

Author:Kate Upton

“If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.”

Ifs Christianity Path Christian Life Savior Narrow Path

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The incarnation was not initially imposed on the spirits as a punishment. It is rather necessary for the spirits' improvement and for the fulfillment of God's works. Everyone has to submit to it, no matter if one takes the evil or the good path. Only those who take the good path will improve quickly, they do not delay to arrive at the end in less painful conditions.”

Ifs Ends Matter Spirit Evil Path Conditions Painful Improvement Punishment Fulfillment Submit Delay Incarnation

Author:Allan Kardec

“Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.”

Ifs Ideas Film Path Wind Approach Void Highways Thickets

Author:Siegfried Kracauer

“The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.”

People Ifs Should Kind Important Dream Funny Talking Careers Path Your Dreams Supportive Follow Your Dreams Career Path

Author:Joan Jett

“The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it”

Ifs Thinking World Way Reason Earth Strong Path Design This World Weak Dare Best Way Temptation Aggressive Invites Aggression Bully Pakistan Defenseless

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“The solution to depression, among other things, is to go within and see if you can tune into more of what might want to come forth out of you. Then take action to follow the path of what attracts you. Reach out, read a book, call a friend, join an organization. Go toward that which attracts you.”

Ifs Want Book Might Action Path Solutions Organization Tunes Reach Out

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Path Enlightenment Exit Linear Disappearance

Author:Eve Ensler

“I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.”

Ifs Giving Trying Has Beens I Can Happens Stuff Walks Path Honor Credit Things Happen Do The Best Honor And Respect

Author:Tyler Perry

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.”

Ifs Feels Problem Political Spirit Individual Social Walks Path Economic Sacred Connectedness

Author:Satish Kumar

“I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Self Asks Economy Path Unemployment Backdrop

Author:Astra Taylor

“The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really do need to have a sense of what you're doing in mobile devices. I had put the company on a path. The board as I was leaving took the company on a path by buying Nokia, they kind of went ahead with that after I told them I was going to go. The company, between me and the board, had taken that sort of view. Satya, he's certainly changed that. He needs to have a clear path forward. But I'm sure he'll get there.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Kind Views Company Path Taken Clear Changed Leaving Clouds Boards Buying Devices Mobile Microsoft Nokia Satya

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.”

Ifs Knows Feels Made Sometimes Enough Young Artist Path Scary Good Enough Auditions Initials Unstable Validation Young Artists

Author:Erin Willett

“If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.”

Ifs Trying Feelings Results Path Angel Addiction Unhappy Guidance

Author:Doreen Virtue

“So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That's why I've stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.”

Ifs Long Whole Seems Gone Path Stuck Genuine Pursue Cynical Skeptical

Author:Brad Warner

“Of the seven billion people who reside on planet Earth, only 25% could, in the broadest sense of the word, be classified as "Christian" (and the percentage who have personally trusted in Christ for salvation is much smaller), meaning that over five billion people in the world are destined to hell if indeed Christ offers the exclusive path for salvation. To many people, such a claim is offensive.”

People Ifs World Earth Christian Christ Hell Path Five Planets Offers Claims Salvation Seven Billions Trusted Offensive Destined Exclusive Percentages Planet Earth

Author:Robert Jeffress

“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.”

Ifs Long Hard Would Be Three Energy Hours Path Wind Periods Cost Solutions Blow Factors Electric Miraculous Straightforward Storage Long Periods Of Time

Author:Bill Gates

“If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.”

Ifs Energy Path Example Cost Extras Expensive Capture Carbon Coal Storage Co2 Hydrocarbons

Author:Bill Gates

“It is my hope that all of the Republicans who recognize that nominating a candidate who agrees with Hillary Clinton on a host of issues, who has a very similar record, is not the path to victory. And if we come together, if conservatives stand together, we're going to have a great night on Tuesday.”

Ifs Together Night Path Issues Records Victory Republican Agree Clinton Candidates Host Tuesday Great Night Nominating

Author:Ted Cruz

“Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Would Be Path Bases Maps Our Future Versus Your Future

Author:L.A. Paul

“If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.”

Ifs Kind Ideas Different Happens Practice Path Meditation Goes On Tradition Careful Familiar Buddhist No Idea Be Careful Visualization Mantras Mixing

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.”

Ifs Heart Feelings Hurt Sin Path Havens Bases Consideration Sufism Ahimsa Hurts Someone

Author:Javad Nurbakhsh

“Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.”

Ifs Knows Nations Path Design Unique Regions Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Colin Powell

“The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility that you may never make any money or get any acknowledgment or accolades for what you're doing.”

Ifs May Ideas Path Possibility Artistic Making Peace Acknowledgment Accolades

Author:Lela Loren

“['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.”

Ifs Want Long Moving Path Messages Maps March Troublesome

Author:John Lewis

“I think too many politicians are not listening to the men and women they represent, and if we're going to change the path America is on, we have got to be fighting for policies not that benefit the giant corporations and the banks and the special interests and the lobbyists, which is what Washington focuses on every day, but instead every policy needs to focus on the working men and women, the truck drivers and the steelworkers, and the young people.”

“As for "toothy kindness" - I think all traditions are full of this sort of tough kindness. If someone is on a wrong or dull path, and someone else startles them into awareness of that, then that's a blessing. And the method by which the startle is obtained might be anger, or satire, or an intentionally applied indifference. But that is, of course, a fine line.”

Ifs Thinking Might Courses Lines Kindness Path Awareness Fine Blessing Tough Tradition Method Indifference Dull Satire Fine Lines

Author:George Saunders

“If you have a dream, only share it with those that are going to support you. Walk toward it on a daily basis and don't let anyone's doubting or negativity throw you off your path.”

Ifs Life Dream Walks Support Path Doubt Share Bases Happy Life Negativity Life And Love Support You

Author:Allison Maslan

“In most cases, negative comments from others are their own fears or insecurity being projected onto you. If you allow them to, these doubts will seep in and throw you off your path. It is important to have positivity around you during this time. Only share your dream with people that you know will support your endeavors.”

People Ifs Knows Life Important Dream Cases Support Path Doubt Share Negative Positivity Your Dreams Insecurity Endeavor Comment Negative Comments

Author:Allison Maslan

“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud ofﬁce to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.”

“For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you.”

Ifs Men Feels Reason Fall Path Love You Crosses Falling In Love I Love You

Book:Sky Bridge: A Novel

Source: Sky Bridge: A Novel

“The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.”

Ifs Problem Opportunity Goal Growth Path Failing Stones Embrace Obstacles Quitting Only Time Stepping Stones Small Problems

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the Father through receiving the Holy Spirit, thus securing their salvation, for in this consists the salvation of every soul. If this aim and this activity is lacking, all other labour is useless and all other striving is in vain. Every path of life which does not lead to this is without profit.”

“I think that if he [Donald Trump] does really want to make gains, if he does want to find a path to those voters who are in the middle, then he needs to do different things than just do these rallies.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Doe Different Path Middle Trump Gains Different Things Voters

Author:Bill Burton

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