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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of their enemies! As they learn to hear of the loss of five hundred or a thousand of their own men, with perhaps less feeling than they would hear of the death of a favorite horse or dog, so they learn to hear of the death of thousands after thousands on the side of the enemy with joy and exultation.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.

If someone says no, you're talking to the wrong person.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

If suffer some misfortune, then think: "The Lord sees my heart, and if it pleases Him, it will be well both for me and and others." And thus your soul will always be at peace. But is someone murmurs, "This is bad, and that is bad," then he will never have peace in his soul, even though he fasts and prays a lot.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.