Great Throughts Treasury

"I think and that is all that I am."

"I view the money that arrives in my life as the energy that I can use to stay on purpose."

"I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient."

"I will send love, but I will remove myself physically from their presence because I am too divine and significant to be the subject of any abuse."

"I will teach them with my behavior, not my words, that I am not willing to be their victim any longer, beginning now."

"I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not."

"If anyone can do this thing well, then I too have that capacity."

"If I could define Enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''"

"If I am going to get where I want to be in life, I can’t rely on anyone but myself in order to make it happen, since I am the only person that I am absolutely certain will be with me at all times, whenever these problems in life crop up. If I am all I’ve got, then I want to be certain that I can call upon me at any time."

"If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study."

"If I am here, everyone is here. If I am not here, no one is here."

"If the world were so organized that everything had to be fair, no living creature could survive for a day. The birds would be forbidden to eat worms, and everyone’s self-interest would have to be served."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds."

"If we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated."

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."

"If you are what you do, then when you don’t, you aren’t."

"If you feel strongly that you came here for a particular purpose, then you should cultivate energy to match this dream. Your current financial status is unimportant when it comes to your pursuit of this purpose."

"If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again."

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"If you do not love what you do and do what you love, you have chosen mayhem over music."

"If you could have any job in the world what would it be?"

"If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along."

"If you refuse to change what you do, practice loving it each day."

"If you want to achieve something that has always eluded you, for this day act as if it were already here."

"If you think one year ahead – sow a seed. If you think ten years ahead – plant a tree. If you think a hundred years ahead – educate the people."

"If you treat your children as it they already are what they are capable of becoming, then you will be doing them a large favor in this self-confidence endeavor."

"If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind-body-ego."

"If you want your child to respect himself, give him an example of a person who does the same, and never, ever waiver from that position."

"If you want to know what your thoughts were like yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will be like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today."

"If your purpose involves providing things that require money for others and for yourself, and if you are uncompromised about your own commitment to your purpose, then money will show up in your life to assist you with your heroic mission."

"If you want to experience the miracle of having genius-level intelligence, then change around those inner voices that have convinced you of your limitations because of your intellect."

"If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you."

"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you."

"In a world of individuals, comparison is a senseless activity."

"In my world, nothing ever goes wrong."

"In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people."

"If you're going to make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd."

"Intelligence is about the mind. The mind is without boundaries."

"Infinite patience brings immediate results."

"It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse.."

"Inner peace... creates world peace!"

"It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?"

"It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul."

"It is a truly scientific phenomenon that when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."

"It is impossible to spoil a child under the age of eighteen months with too much love and attention."

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poster to choose either."