Ifs Quotes (page 204)

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• life sayings
• manly
• my man

If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• acceptance
• imagination
• imaginable

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others. Patrick White

• humorous
• frustration
• impatient

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. Madeleine L'Engle

• thinking
• reading
• personal

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid Arthur Schopenhauer

• dream
• lost
• lost dreams

If you follow every dream, you might get lost. Neil Young

• dog
• training
• grandpa

If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. -- Brown Dog Jim Harrison

• reading
• go
• bothers

If you're going to read this, don't bother. Chuck Palahniuk

• brother
• yours
• trumpet

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it! Nick Cave

• life
• mother
• turtle

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle Arthur Golden

• thinking
• universe
• bad

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. Philip K. Dick

• time
• rightfully
• will

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Albert Einstein

• letting go
• she
• end

If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun? Annie Dillard

• world
• manners
• rightful

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. Charles Dickens

• learning
• betterment
• try

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. Nicholas Sparks

• culture
• nature
• free

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to... Wendell Berry