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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz 
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
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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 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.
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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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
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It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
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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
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
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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
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
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
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.
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We fear both the best and the worst in life.
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Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
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The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
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
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive
is devoid of the power to love.
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.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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 the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
I want it said of me 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
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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
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