If we surrenderedto earth’s intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So like children, we begin again...to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness.Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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Quote:- If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory, we may single out the essentials for the present that might be best shots for the future. (Never looking back again", )
Author:- Erik Pevernagie
Category:- time
Quote:- If we talked and wrote only about things we know, how much silence...
Author:- Luigina Sgarro
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
Author:- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.
The Toll Bridge
Author:- Aidan Chambers
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want... and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!
The Beast's Garden
Author:- Kate Forsyth
Category:- hope
Quote:- If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Author:- Werner Heisenberg
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that.
Paradise Lost
Author:- Patrick Rothfuss
Category:- best
Quote:- If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- best
Quote:- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Author:- Henry David Thoreau
Category:- hope
Quote:- If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Author:- Lawrence M. Krauss
Category:- philosophy,science
Quote:- If we work so actively to avoid painful situations, preoccupation will cause us to miss the good things that are happening in our lives.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- time,hope,motivational
Quote:- If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Author:- Audre Lorde
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Ode to the West Wind
Author:- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category:- hope
Quote:- If wishes were fishes, we would all cast a net.
Under My Skin
Author:- James Dawson
Category:- motivational
Quote:- If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life.
Author:- Paul Nouge
Category:- poetry