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AUM, the most primordial human sound -
and the sound most connected to Spirit,
is pronounced in these three parts:
A (as in mama) - a throat sound
that vibrates in the abdomen - signifies waking.
U (as in who) - a tongue sound
that vibrates in the chest - signifies dreaming.
M (as in mama) - a lip sound
that vibrates in the head - signifies sleeping.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit
and of God pronouncing His works good.
- Helen Keller
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
If you are over 30, get out your high-school yearbook
and look for ideas you can apply today -
perhaps an innocent optimism about life -
perhaps a hobby you loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
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
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
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
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
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
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