When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you’re pandering to them.
I’ve always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible.
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
The first boy was always the hardest.
Something had changed in me, even if I didn’t know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: You’re here, aren’t you?
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.