Ifs Quotes (page 217)

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• single
• personality
• school

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it! J. K. Rowling

• peace
• choices
• choose

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness. Theodore Roosevelt

• yellow
• color
• scientific

If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good. Robert Fulghum

• mistake
• ignorance
• persistence

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius

• helpful
• love
• help

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. Sherman Alexie

• humanity
• humanness
• obscenity

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me. Larry Flynt

• disappear
• others
• seeing

If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot. Emile M. Cioran

• manly
• personality
• true

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only. Paulo Coelho

• garden
• library
• everything

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."(Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.) Marcus Tullius Cicero

• thoughts
• manly
• greatness

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit. George Eliot

• could
• which
• occurred

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories. John Berger

• little
• evening
• different

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. Jodi Picoult

• look
• new
• anchor

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller

• history
• age
• thoughts

If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that thought the most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot. in the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark one Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they... C. S. Lewis

• life
• different
• differences

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier. Bette Midler