If Then Quotes (page 48)

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• soul
• wild
• soulful

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. Jane Goodall

• book
• reading
• writing

If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison

• you me
• look at me
• understanding

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh) Nora Roberts

• growth
• search
• best

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• to live
• forever
• feeling

if you want to live forever, figure out what it is that you feel passionate about, then follow that dream. Meg Cabot

• avoiding
• life
• personal

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle. Christopher Hitchens

• shine
• shining
• burned

if u want to shine like the sun then burn like. Adolf Hitler

• life
• death
• health

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• commitment
• psychology
• science

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false. Steven Pinker

• saying
• exactly what
• exactness

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there? Douglas Adams

• hand
• old
• enough

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. "Artistic" fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions--and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions. Julia Cameron

• miracle
• caring
• women

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up.. David Brin

• getting older
• you
• happier

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up Ani DiFranco

• purpose
• knowledge
• wisdom

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose. Edward Abbey

• art
• insiders
• solved

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery. Truman Capote