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During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I could tell the world just one thing
it would be we're all okay,
and not to worry cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these.
I won't be made useless.
I won't be idle with despair,
I will gather myself around my faith.
Light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
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It is useless for us to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he has never been reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift
In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
On His Blindness:
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
- John Milton (1608-1674)
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The soul loves to meditate,
for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.
If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation,
remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego;
it doesn't belong to the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Nuts.
- General Anthony Clement McAuliffe
responding to a German demand to surrender his
101st Airborne Division in Belgium during World War II.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite
smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol
before, after and if need be during all meals
and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
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
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
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
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
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 and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
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
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
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
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
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
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
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
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
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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