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  Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 12, 2017

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• My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

  Armistead Maupin

  Marriage, Mother, Couple

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.

  John Tusa

  Change, Want, Management

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• Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Reality, Self

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

  Veronica Roth

  Forgiveness, Evil, Loving Someone

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• Our first and last love is self-love.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

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• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Important, I Love You

  "Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins" by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (p. 284), 1956.

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Birthday, Baby, Laughter

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

  Bob Dylan

  Love, Past, Lasts

  Song: Bye and Bye

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• On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

  Michael Bloomberg

  Rushing, Burning, Alive

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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  Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

  Lucille Ball

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Should Have, Things In Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

  Daphne du Maurier

  First Love, Time And Love, Fever

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Men, Special

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Attitude, First Love, Teenage Love

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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