If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.  ~ Anwarul Chowdhury

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.  ~ Irwin Corey

If we give ourselves very little credit for how far we've already come, we tend to give others little to no credit for their own efforts in life. When we're impatient with ourselves, how can we possibly be forgiving of others? And as long as we continue judging ourselves when we look in the mirror, we'll be doing the same to everyone around us.  ~ Buddhist Wisdom

If we hardheadedly choose to hold on to strife, we are choosing to step out of God’s protection. Take the initiative to keep strife out of your life.  ~ Joel Osteen

If we hold back out of fear of being wrong, learning to trust our intuition could take a life time.  ~ Shakti Gawain

If we infatuate with others and put them on pedestals we minimize ourselves & we consciously or unconsciously inject their values into our lives which dis-empowers us from our authentic nature. When we resent others and put them in pits we exaggerate ourselves & we consciously or unconsciously project our values onto them, and desire to change them. Wisdom is to rather learn to appreciate ourselves and others as we are.  ~ Dr. John Demartini

If we look upon life adversities the experiences make us grow stronger, wiser and better. We may not believe we're capable of handling the transition we go through at the time ; but relying on a Spiritual force more omnipotent than ourselves we'll see the journey sharpen our ability to stand firm when the next obstacle comes. The Spiritual Eye is waiting to protect, guide and direct us on our journey.  ~ Kathy Williams

If we recognize the truth that we are beings of light, we tend to reify that perception and identify with it, concretizing ourselves and experiencing ourselves as heavy and opaque. Even as beings of light, we see ourselves as a physical body, with its parts and activities, having mass and operating under the influence of gravity. We think that we are entities in space and time, and that our existence began in the past and will end in the future.  ~ A.H. Almaas

If we see someone we want to emulate, it's because we are seeing qualities that exist within us.  ~ Debbie Ford

If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.  ~ Anthony Robbins

If we want to see an overflow of God's favor, we have to learn to pray bold prayers and ask Him to fulfill our highest hopes and dreams.  ~ Joel Osteen

If we want to stay on track with God and do so with good attitudes, we have to make communication with Him a priority.  ~ Joyce Meyer

If we won't be better tomorrow than we are today, then what do we need tomorrow for?  ~ Rabbi Nahman

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home. ~ Alan Cohen

If you already know exactly what you want, do not be afraid to go and get it.  The worse thing that can happen is you realize there is something even better that you like more.  ~ Dr.G

If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.  ~ ACIM

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.  ~ Lao Tzu

If you are going to do anything great for God, and if you’re determined never to give up on your dreams, you have to take chances; you have to be courageous!  ~ Joyce Meyer

If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.  ~ Don Ward

If you are in a relationship that causes you imbalance and anguish, get out. We come together in relationships to grow, not to live in misery.  ~ Iyanla Vanzant

If you are in the future, then ego seems to be very substantial. If you are in the present the ego is a mirage, it starts disappearing.  ~ Osho

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.  ~ Chinese Proverb

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.  Succeed anyway.  ~ Kent M. Keith

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful.  ~ ACIM

If you are ultimately going to do something important that will make a real difference, do it now.  ~ Howard Wight

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

If you are up against big challenges, this is not the time to be passive. More than ever, start declaring God’s favor.  ~ Joel Osteen

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.  ~ Emile Zola

If you attack a problem, you are going to get your butt whipped. Anything you attack will fight back. Don't attack your problems. Face them, confess them, understand what they are - that is the process.  ~ Iyanla Vanzant

If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there.  ~ Joseph Campbell

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.  ~ Dalai Lama

If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then the world is yours and all that’s in it.  ~ Rudyard Kipling

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.  ~ Carolyn Kenmore

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ~ Lin Yutang

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ~ Dalai Lama

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.  ~ Louise Brown

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.  ~ William James

If you change nothing, nothing changes. ~ Dr. Joyce

If you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. ~ ACIM

If you choose to take a thing away from someone else, you will have nothing left.  ~ ACIM

If you clean the floor with love, you have given the world an invisible painting.  ~ Osho

If you could feel even a particle of divine love, so great would be your joy -- so overpowering -- you could not contain it.  ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

If you dare to fight against hatred, There is but one weapon: Love.  ~ Sri Chinmoy

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.  Do good anyway.  ~ Kent M. Keith

If you do not get chills when you set a goal, you're not setting big enough goals.  ~ Bob Proctor

If you don’t plant flowers in the garden of your mind, you’ll forever pull weeds. Likewise, if you don’t fill your day with high priority thoughts and actions, it will get filled with low priority thoughts and actions. At the start of each day, it is wise to visualize yourself sowing the seeds of what you would love to reap, then commit to sowing whatever you’d most love. Review your day and look for the link between what you sowed and what you reaped. It is impossible to break the Golden rule of cause and effect; no matter what, you reap what you sow and what you focus on, grows. Every time a weed is pulled, the flowers become more visible.  ~ Dr. John Demartini

If you don't get your mind straightened out, you'll never get your life straightened out. You have to think about what you're thinking about.  ~ Joyce Meyer

If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.  ~ Oprah Winfrey

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.  ~ Dolly Parton

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. That's a big mistake! ~ Frank Wilczek

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.  ~ Zig Ziglar

If you feel in no danger, and if you offer no prayer for help and strength to resist temptations, you will be sure to go astray.  ~ Mhar

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.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.  ~ Kent M. Keith

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging!  ~ Will Rogers

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.  ~ Eckhart Tolle

If you have a problem with a member of your family who is negative, begin by writing a list of all the things you appreciate about that person. Remember to include gratitude to them for giving you a great desire for positivity in your life; because that is a gift they are giving you. As you focus with all of your strength on appreciation, you will not only reduce your exposure to the negativity, but at the same time you will be attracting positive people into your life.  ~ David Heckford