If Then Quotes (page 49)

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• life
• strength
• acceptance

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. T. S. Eliot

• evening
• equality
• play

If you're goingto play cards, you should ask Burke to join you," Adelia put in. "Then maybe Keeley, Erin and I can find something equally foolish to do with our evening."Good idea. More wine, Brian?" Keeley lifted the bottle, cocked a brow. The purr in her voice was subtle, but he heard it. And suffered. Nora Roberts

• reflection
• saying
• manly

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. Philip K. Dick

• loses
• losing
• having

if i am what i have, and i lose what i have, who then am i? Erich Fromm

• sky
• growing up
• giving

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. Isaac Asimov

• thinking
• doings
• you

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• beauty
• brain
• people

If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains. L. Frank Baum

• people
• to live
• elected

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? Cormac McCarthy

• rock
• rock and roll
• jail

If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail. Kurt Cobain

• believe
• believes
• saved

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved. Gregory Corso

• dream
• power
• powerful

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") Audre Lorde

• nature
• death
• thinking

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death Carl Jung

• personality
• world
• personal

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world. Abraham Lincoln

• memories
• moments
• memorial

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. Daphne du Maurier

• life
• relationship
• god

If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless. Joseph Ratzinger