"If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity."
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"If you are not having fun you are doing something wrong."
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
"If there were no God, he would have to be invented."
"If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow."
"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."
"If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy."
"If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up."
"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."
"Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!"
"I am exhausted if I don't work."
"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?"
"If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself."
"Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp"
"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
"You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence."
"If you like soggy cereal, then we not friends."
"Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy."
"It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it."
"There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning."