Ifs Quotes (page 274)

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• worship
• law
• mind

If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought,” he said, “the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy.” We loved the idea of being everyday crazy. It rang so true, so real. “In our privatest mind,” he said, “there is only chaos and blur. We invented logic to beat back our creatural selves. We assert or deny. We follow M with N.” Our privatest mind, we thought. Did he really say that? “The only laws that matter are... Don DeLillo

• people
• attention
• saying

If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention. Julian Barnes

• wellness
• moments
• writing

If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still had to go on writing. I'm glad I made this decision in a moment of failure. It's easy to say you're a writer when things are going well. When the decision is made in the abyss, the in is quite clear that it is not one's own decision at all. Madeleine L'Engle

• peace
• another
• belongs

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to one another Mother Teresa

• achievement
• universe
• achievements

If you really want something, the whole universe conspires in making you achieve it Paulo Coelho

• time
• people
• hell

If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time. Chuck Palahniuk

• senses
• wanting
• make

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. Norton Juster

• you me
• shine
• mindfulness

If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing. You must shovel the walk... and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going? Shel Silverstein

• god
• pain
• men

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you. George R. R. Martin

• evening
• brother
• question

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother. Anthony Kiedis

• best
• other
• rest

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. Stephen King

• work
• tree
• hard

If you thought hard enough, he’d always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him until the day he’d realized that it was caused by all the trees waving about. Terry Prachett

• death
• humanity
• fate

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. Viktor E. Frankl

• power
• powerful
• to live

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. Jose Saramago

• death
• reading
• writing

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading Abraham Lincoln