They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you.
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.
The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
We’ve been speaking English as a second language so long that we’ve forgotten it as our first.
I like the inspiration of the first take.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.
First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.
So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.