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Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
Meddling:
Everything that happens in the world, or doesn't happen,
is NOT my responsibility.
There are more than enough things that are my responsibility.
I am responsible for my thoughts, my beliefs, and my actions -
and that is enough.
It does not serve me to mind anyone else's business.
I can only make myself unhappy by trying to second guess
what anyone else thinks or does.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Looking at a sunset, just for a second
you forget your separateness:
you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset,
you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate,
enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
- Osho
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
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
Tradition is like a second-hand store.
It is best to sort carefully
between the treasures and the trash.
See everything with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
I have treated many hundreds of patients.
Among those in the second half of life -
that is to say, over 35 -
there has not been one whose problem in the last resort
was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ
in color for a full hour,
there would be a considerable number of stations
which would decline to carry it on the grounds
that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
- Edward R. Murrow
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- 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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- 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
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.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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