Quotes on Ifs

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.