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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
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The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu 
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
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