What If Quotes - Page 39

• What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Light

  Adyashanti (2006). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.105, Sounds True

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• Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Faith, Newborn

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• But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

  Carl Jung

  Kindness, Enemy, Needs

  "Psychology and religion: west and east".

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• What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

  Ron Paul

  Lying, War, Order

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• What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Respect, Loss

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• So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, People, Drunk

  "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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• What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

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• But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

  John Flanagan

  Mistake, Learning, Trying

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• We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  God, Faith, Christian

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• God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

  Jim Rohn

  God, Night, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 09, 2015

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• What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

  Kanye West

  Way, Architect, You Re The Best

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• What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Factions, Irritating

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

  May Sarton

  Beauty, Order, Meditation

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

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