Conditional Quotes

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“I belonged here the way I belonged to this planet and its people, but on one condition: alone, always alone.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”
“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear

“We add caveats to prayers like seasoning to bad sauce. We hope for something else or something more, but we forget. Sometimes life isn’t the pleasure of the taste, rather the nutrition we get from it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Love was always conditional: anyone who thought otherwise was a fool.”
― Callie Hunter, Entwined

“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.”
― Amit Kalantri

“We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Whatever else you set out to do, begin by getting to know God and seeking His will in your life. If you do that, you will find Him. He will lead you. He will bless you. What a wonderful promise! But it is conditional. If you turn your back on the Lord, He will cast you off forever.”
― James Dobson

“Each time, we ask, "Who am I?", we answer the question differently. Our identity evolves, as it is the sum of our thoughts, words and deeds. To be ourselves, we have to remember ourselves, which makes our very identity conditional. Each time we remember, we reaffirm our individuality. Our existence as an independent person depends on it, but we don't exist as self-enclosed units of matter. Who we are cannot be remembered or forgotten. Our identity, as we perceive it, only appears in consciousness. Underneath, it exists in a thoughtless, wordless awareness, in which there is no "We" or "I", just an "Amness"...simply an indescribable sense of being.”
― Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One

“Hatred is conditional. Just like love.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A drunk [once] said to me, "Drugs and alcohol are not our problem, reality is our problem; drugs and alcohol are our solution to that problem." [...]

Aren't we all, in one way or another, trying to find a solution to the problem of reality? If I get this job, this girl, this guy, these shoes. If I pass this exam, eat this pizza, drink this booze, go on this holiday. [...] Isn't there always some kind of condition to contentment? Isn't it always placed in the future, wrapped up in some object, either physical or ideological?”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It’s all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn’t conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

“Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.”
― Craig Groeschel, The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

“Living unconditionally liberates us from the constant struggle of evaluating others’ actions, comparing ourselves to others, or basing our behavior on circumstances.”
― Andy Crocker, The Unconditionals: Five Timeless Values to Live Without Limits and Ignite Your Superpower

“Conditional is about except.
Unconditional is about accept.
. . .
Conditional is want.
Unconditional is wealth.
. . .
Conditional is never enough.
Unconditional is enough.”
― Andy Crocker, The Unconditionals: Five Timeless Values to Live Without Limits and Ignite Your Superpower