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It is a fact often observed,
that men have written good verses
under the inspiration of passion,
who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
- Omar Khayyam
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
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