Firsts Quotes - Page 32

• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Work, Reading

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• The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Family, Children, Ties

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• Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Writing, Law, History

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• You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Breakup, Love You, Healthy

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• We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Space, Atoms, Body

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.77, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Heart, Men

  "Addison's Essays".

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• If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

  David Frum

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

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• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting, Temptation, Suffering

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• It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Sleep, Science, Night

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• When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

  Joan Miro

  Painting, Canvas, Knows

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• My first thought is always of light.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Light

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• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Lessons, Pebbles

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