Quotes on Ifs

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma.

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.