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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
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb 
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
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 and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
-Sheri Rosenthal
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
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
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
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
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
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
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