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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Long ago men fought and died for their faith;
but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, -
the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren
and their rights of conscience.
- Helen Keller
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
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
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
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
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
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