Quotes on Ifs

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.