Ifs Quotes (page 300)

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• search
• because
• searching

If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. Lao Tzu

• life
• determination
• question

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes. Albert Einstein

• humanity
• determination
• saying

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do. Stephen Hawking

• swimming
• castle
• wants

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat. Elizabeth Gilbert

• people
• work
• intelligent

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward. Vincent Van Gogh

• loses
• losing
• having

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

• self
• saying
• road

If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self... Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• time
• corrects
• manhattan

If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate. Werner Herzog

• fly
• flies
• try

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly. David Eddings

• universe
• apple
• creates

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan

• heart
• trust
• mind

If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of qualities of the heart that made men trust him, and women call him sweet--a word of theirs which conveys otherwise indefinable excellences. William Dean Howells

• die
• wills
• willing

... if i die what will become of them? ... What will become of them? ... Who would feed it and who would feed them all? Fyodor Dostoevsky

• wellness
• him
• alone boys

If a boy became sick he walked alone; the others were afraid to catch what he had, and did not want to know him too well for he would surely die soon. We did not want his voice in our heads. Dave Eggers

• help
• wild
• helpful

If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. Jane Austen

• children
• thinking
• manly

If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be? Ernest Hemingway