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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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
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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
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
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Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that, seize the opportunity
to sharpen those qualities even more sharply
by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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