If Then Quotes (page 43)

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• best
• moments
• choose

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. Ursula K. Le Guin

• time
• him
• kiss

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him. Italo Calvino

• sky
• daily
• niece

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong. E. M. Forster

• god
• gospel
• beginning

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning. Corrie Ten Boom

• love
• love yourself
• understanding

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully. And more self-givingly. Sri Chinmoy

• change
• personality
• personal

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person. Doug Coupland

• thinking
• everybody
• thinks

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton

• change
• reflection
• achievement

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. Jean Genet

• nothing
• dared
• willing

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. Neil Gaiman

• work
• willed
• then

If you act like you can do something, then it will work. Walter Isaacson

• life
• universe
• earth

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. Voltaire

• tree
• moments
• forest

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens. Viggo Mortensen

• pay
• just being
• just be

If you want pay, then just be gay. Salman Rushdie

• art
• earth
• it is what it is

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker

• time
• brotherhood
• thinking

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? Richard Bach