Firsts Quotes - Page 23

• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, East

  Journal (1867)

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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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• You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it will respond. The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. Become a giver. And people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Eye, Heart

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• We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Education, School, Two

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• First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely you will see that you have only a few thoughts repeated again and again - maybe in new forms, new colors, new garments, new masks, but you have only a very few thoughts.

  Rajneesh

  Color, Mind, Mask

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• Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the first time in your original freshness. For the first time your real face is encountered. Mind is not there - the divider. Now existence appears as one. Mind has dropped; the barrier between you and existence is no more. Now you can look at existence with no mind. This is how a sage is born. With the mind - the world. With no mind - freedom, MOKSHA, KAIVALYA, NIRVANA. Cessation of the mind is cessation of the world.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mind Freedom, Looks

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• You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Darkness, Energy

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• When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Thinking, Moments

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• Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more tense. Relaxation is not a consequence, is not a result of some activity; it is the glow of understanding. This is the first thing I would like to relate to you: life is purposeless. It is very hard to accept it. And why is it so hard to accept that life is purposeless? It is hard because without purpose the ego cannot exist. It is hard to conceive that life has no goal because without any goal being there, there is no point in having a mind, in having an ego.

  Rajneesh

  Goal, Understanding, Ego

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• Take a good look at your mind. Examine it closely. The first thing you will come to know is that the mind has become the master - not you and not your soul! The mind says: Do this! And you do it! If you don't the mind creates problems. It become sad, and the sadness of the mind becomes your sadness. If you do as it says you get nowhere, for the mind is blind. Where can you reach by obeying the mind! The is unconsciousness. If you listen to it you reach nowhere.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Soul, Mind

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• Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to happen. Sin simply means that you don't know what you are doing, you are unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that "I am a sinner" is the beginning of real virtue. To see that "I am ignorant" is the first glimpse of wisdom.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Ignorant

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• As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have called virtue will automatically flow from your being, from your actions. But they have been doing just vice versa: first change the acts... It is as if you are in a dark house, and you are stumbling over furniture and over things, and you are told that unless you stop stumbling, light is not possible.

  Rajneesh

  Dark, Light, House

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• During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Mean, Hypnosis

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• Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

  Rajneesh

  Love You, Mean, Loving Yourself

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• The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

  Laozi

  Wise, Meaningful, Men

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• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Meaningful, Thinking

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• If I were a lame only just for a week. I'd look at myself in the mirror and shoot the first thing I see.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Mirrors, Looks

  Song: If I Were A Lame, Album: Burn After Rolling, 2009

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• Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Remember

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• The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

  Bliss Carman

  Endurance, Events, Needs

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Long, Everyday

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• The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

  John Updike

  Adultery, Breathe

  Couples ch. 5 (1968)

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• Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Habit

  "Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Cheating, Self

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

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• It is our first duty to serve society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Society, Duty

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 10 (February 1766)

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• For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Honesty, Men

  'To the same' [John Lapraik] st. 15

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