Quotes on Ifs

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is not performed for His sake then it is wasted and severed. Every heart that does not reach Him is wretched; veiled from achieving its success and happiness.

The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.