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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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
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
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
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
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
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 second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant
leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
"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
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
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
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
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
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
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
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
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
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
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
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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