Quotes on Ifs

Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.

If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

What I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I've been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money.

What kind of husband am I gonna be if I can't even hold my wife's hand? _x000D_ ...but I realized I may not have hands to hold my wife's hand, but when the time comes, I'll be able to hold her heart. I don't need hands to hold her heart.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.

Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.