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“The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.”

Ifs Firsts Pain Can Do Healing Half Steps Cost Smile Ill Cancer Hardest Recovery Broken Heart Remedy Hardest Thing Healing Heart

Author:Allen Klein

“The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".”

Ifs Firsts Persons Steps Cases Plans Humility Goes On Becoming Creating Sentences Peaceful Helpful First Steps Emergencies Reminding According To Plan Reminding Yourself

Book:Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.”

“You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.”

Firsts Use Order Asks Answers Steps Enemy Subjects Mastery First Steps Arrangements Classification Simplification

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.”

Firsts Steps Chaos Selfishness First Steps Aggression Slippery Slopes Slippery Slope

Book:Men, women, and aggression

Source: Men, women, and aggression

“Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and if I'm completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It's only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.”

Source: No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

“As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”

Should Firsts Made Country Whole Government Law Steps Wise Impossible Empires Most Wise

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.”

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Author:Scott Walker

“As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.”

Firsts Steps Rights Achieve Offers Weapons Equality First Steps Forbidden Treaties Disarmament Peace Treaties

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.”

Knows Firsts I Can Ends Life Is Steps Knowing Path This Life First Steps End Of The Road

Book:Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.”

Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

“Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.”

Firsts Steps Knowing Path First Steps

Author:Katie Davis

“Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.”

Firsts Believe Steps Succeed Believe In Yourself First Steps Believe In You Avoided Believe You Can

Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.”

Firsts Believe Doe Wisdom Steps First Steps

Author:Pam Brown

“Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.”

Men Firsts Ends Lasts Steps Guilt Descent Steep Precipice Perdition

Book:Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc

Source: Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc

“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”

Firsts Goal Steps Gone Progress First Steps

Author:Michael Gerber

“At River Belle we don't just listen to our customers, we also try to anticipate their demands and be the first to market with the features that become industry standards. This extended variety of games is a huge step toward creating a one-stop gaming experience that makes a world of difference for our players.”

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Author:Tim Johnson

“How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.”

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Author:George Leonard

“The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.”

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Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.”

Needs Firsts Humans Earth Form Space Rooms Steps Technology Creating Acknowledge Logical First Steps Living Things

Author:John Lindsay

“It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Film Dies Steps Fans Minutes Horror Twenties Scripts Obvious Factors Scare Rubbish Horror Film Horror Fans

Author:Danny Dyer

“Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.”

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Author:Charles Stross

“If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.”

Ifs Want Firsts Humans Mistake Steps Making Mistakes Apology Apologizing Step Up Brokers I'm Only Human

Author:Michelle Shocked

“Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say "Hey, I want to volunteer." And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride.”

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Author:Avi Lewis

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"”

Thinking Firsts Christianity Steps First Steps

Author:Dwight Longenecker

“The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer it in the right direction, but it's much harder to start it up when it's stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.”

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Author:Peter Kreeft

“I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!”

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Author:Phil Hellmuth

“Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.”

Ifs Want Firsts Home Moving Steps Ass First Steps

Book:The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead

Source: The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead

“Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.”

Way Firsts Home Moving Left Realizing Steps First Steps Adulthood Never Quit Away From Home

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Goal Steps Failing Believe In Yourself First Steps

Author:Will Smith

“The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.”

People Firsts Has Beens Different Wonder Steps First Steps Could Have Been

Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.”

Firsts Two Whole Lasts Love Is Steps Journey Divine Surrender First Steps

Author:Rajneesh

“I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things upside-down. We have moved away from the nuclear family, in which the man always works and the woman stays home. How are we going to rearrange things now? We've done the first part of the revolution, we've turned everything on its head, but we haven't figured out what structures will actually work in this new world.”

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Author:Debora Spar

“One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.”

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Author:Jerome Ringo

“The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.”

People Knows Should Firsts Looks Government Steps Identity Unions First Steps Totalitarianism European Union Prescribing

Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

“Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.”

Firsts Secret Steps Shame Remains Addiction Recovery Openness Overwhelming First Steps Addiction Recovery

Author:David Sheff

“The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty...when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind...mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.”

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Author:Laura Wasser

“I almost dropped dead the first time I heard Bob Dole say 'gay marriage' on the floor of the senate. He wasn't saying nice things, but he said it! I never thought in my lifetime I'd hear that. I just think we're moving now at warp speed. Even when we take a step back like with prop 8, we take two steps forward.”

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Author:Cherry Jones

“Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing”

Thinking Firsts Humans Persons Easy Difficult Human Beings Steps Violence Impossible Objects Equal Empathy Abuse Violent First Steps

Book:Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

Source: Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

“Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.”

Firsts Steps Mentality First Steps Modernity Beggar

Author:James Shikwati

“The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.”

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Author:Laura Miller

“Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.”

Firsts Attitude Steps Reflection Commitment Critical Theology

Author:Gustavo Gutiérrez

“The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.”

Knows Firsts Matter Young Steps Shapes Mark Impression Permanent First Steps What Matters

Author:Plato

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