"Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us."
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"Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me."
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"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."
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"All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer."
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"If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple."
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"A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him."
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"I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going."
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"Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless."
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"First feelings are always the most natural."
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"You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities."
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"For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first."
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"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
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"Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you."
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"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
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"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
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"If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you."
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"The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived."
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"The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility."
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"To achieve great things, we must first dream."
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"First you imitate, then you innovate."
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