Quotes on Ifs

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.