Firsts Quotes

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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… — Baron de Montesquieu
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… — Rajneesh
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… — Mario Batali
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. — Elizabeth Goudge
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… — Rajneesh
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… — Rajneesh
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… — Rajneesh
When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual. — Rajneesh
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… — Rajneesh
Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness,… — Rajneesh
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… — Rajneesh
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,… — Rajneesh
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have… — Rajneesh
The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice. — Laozi
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -… — Thomas A. Edison
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
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… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. — Bliss Carman
The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. — Blaise Pascal
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. — Philip James Bailey
It is our first duty to serve society. — Samuel Johnson
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… — Robert Burns
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison
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

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