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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.

If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance.

If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need. Consideration for others generally reflects faith in self and faith in others.

If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams.

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.

If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out; it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.