When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
When you follow your bliss... doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
My only reason for not experiencing bliss at this very moment
is thinking about what I don't have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
If you have an emotional reaction in the presence of someone,
your heart is telling you that you have
not resolved your issues with them.
In other words, you have not truly forgiven that person.
All of this begs the question, how do we forgive?
First, cease lying to yourself and stop telling yourself stories
about why you behave the way you do.
Stop blaming your behavior on other people
and take responsibility for your emotional reactions.
If you could forgive all the people in your life
who have hurt or wounded you
it would be possible to be in control of your behavior
instead of being in reaction to other people all of the time.
Imagine living life without experiencing
a constant emotional roller-coaster of pain, anger, and jealousy!
That would be bliss!
- Sheri Rosenthal
When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
- Anonymous
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
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
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference.
- Henry David Thoreau
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
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
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
You have a row of dominoes set up;
you knock over the first one,
and what will happen to the last one
is that it will go over very quickly.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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