Great Throughts Treasury

"If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world."

"If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."

"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man."

"If you do not wake up early, you can never see the sun rise. If you do not pray, but God is always near, you can never notice his presence."

"If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you."

"If you can dream, you can do."

"If you don't want to believe me, you don't have to do anything about it."

"If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."

"if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another."

"If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday."

"If you keep alive, it is because you still have not gotten where you need."

"If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want."

"If you know where you are putting your foot, you will see any traps and be able to avoid them."

"If you live your life fully, you will only die once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day."

"If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free."

"If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear."

"If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make."

"If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

"If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you?ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others."

"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it."

"If you start by promising what you do not yet have, you lose your will to get it."

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

"If you promised not including yours yet, you'll lose the desire to get it."

"If you say it was the last time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was the most recent time I was here."

"If you want something very much, it means that your desire is born in the soul of the universe."

"If you understand life you need a reality check."

"If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realize that it?s part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect."

"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."

"If you want something, the whole universe will come together to help."

"If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain."

"If you wash the dishes, pray. Be grateful that you have dishes to wash. This means that there was food to eat, so you fed anyone that you are responsible for one or more of the person - did eat, covered the table. Can you imagine the thousands of people currently do not have anything to wash or not to set the table for anyone."

"If you?re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

"If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes."

"If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished."

"If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist Because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history."

"If you want to succeed in something So leave your eyes open and your mind focused in order to realize exactly what you want. No one infects a goal with closed."

"I'm afraid of death, but what I fear more than death, is to waste my life in vain, and called Love because it contains things surpass our understanding, it sheds a light of a particular kind, but what scares me is what this places the light from the shadows."

"I'm afraid if I do not achieve my dream keeps me afterwards reason to live."

"I'm alive, he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires and no moon. When I'm eating, that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other. Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."

"I'm alive, said the young man, and camping is fever-free moonless night, while eating palm. And one thing I'm thinking about something else while eating dinner. I'll walk when I walk in, that's all. If I have to fight, death came the following day or buzz these days I do not care. Because what I do in the past nor in the future I live. My only concern is just that me and now I have. You could always managed to live in the now, you'll be a happy man. That there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the sky and the essence of human life, they will understand where the battle of the tribal combatants. Then a feast of life, will be a festival, because life is all about and that we are living now is just that."

"I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living."

"I'm alive - when I eat, I do not do anything other than eating, and when I walk, I walk, that's all, and if I had a day of fighting, all days are equally at death, I do not live in the past nor in the future, it is not to me only present I live, and he alone who care, and that you can afford to live the present always, if you are a happy man."

"I'm alive. And while I eat, I do nothing but eat. When I walk, I walk, that's all. And whether one day beat me any day as good as another to die. Because I do not live in either my past or my future. I only have this, and this alone is what interests me. If you can still remain in the present, then you will be a happy man."

"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure."

"I'm going away, he said. And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because... Don't say anything, Fatima interrupted. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."

"I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."

"I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I used to be like: someone pretending to know everything, hidden away in my own silence."

"I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith."

"I'm like everyone else: I see the world as I would like things to happen, and not really happen."

"If you think that the adventure is dangerous, I suggest you to try the routine... It is deadly!"