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Letter "F" » first moment
«This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.»
«Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time»
Author: Margot Fonteyn
(Dancer)
| Keywords:
encountered, first moment, for the first time, minor, revelation
«Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was»
Author: Akhenaton
| Keywords:
afterwards, arrow, first moment, warrior, wilt, wilted, wilting, wilts
«Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Cats
| Keywords:
acquaintance, enters, examined, first moment, for the first time, quiet, room, searches, smelled, smells, smelt, trusts, watch
«That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
distract, first moment, gaze, interfered, repose, weariness
«At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Life,
Survival
| Keywords:
first moment, realization, Second law, second law of
«A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Discipline,
Society
| Keywords:
comparable, counteract, equilibrium, first moment, ordered, rudder, suggestion, well-ordered
«You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
a thousand, brief, destiny, first moment, first step, justified, justifying, Of Man, preserve, rendezvous, sentence, The Last
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