Ifs Quotes (page 179)

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• inspirational
• respect
• feeling

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• dream
• memorial day
• night

If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made Selena Gomez

• wellness
• writing
• morning

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning... Walter Mosley

• imagination
• life
• framed

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. Frederick Buechner

• love
• rough
• down

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. William Shakespeare

• book
• home
• going home

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! John Waters

• life
• impersonator
• mystery

If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at all, that cruelty was purely impersonal, but we don't. Anne Rice

• us
• same
• same thing

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us! Paulo Coelho

• life
• personality
• personal

If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Ann Patchett

• heart
• time
• giving

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart. Victor Hugo

• money
• wishes
• rich

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

• leaving
• enough
• had enough

If you have plenty of money, want not to see but to have seen a bullfight and plan no matter whether you like it or not to leave after the first bull, buy a barrera seat so that someone who has never had enough money to sit in a barrera can make a quick rush from above and occupy your expensive seat as you go out taking your pre-conceived opinions with you. Ernest Hemingway

• cousin
• space
• manly

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space. Percival Lowell

• images
• him
• manly

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame. All animal breeders know how difficult it is to maintain a fine strain. The universe seems to be in a conspiracy to encourage the endless reproduction of peasants and Socialists, but a subtle and mysterious opposition stands eternally against the reproduction of philosophers. H. L. Mencken

• running
• training
• directed

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer