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The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Perseverance Attitude
Cheer for endings - whether goals have been met or not -
whether the ending is tidy or ragged.
Without endings, there would be neither the opportunity
nor the incentive to think new thoughts,
and to begin great new projects.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort
of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but to pour them all out, just as they are,
chaff and grain together,
knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then,
with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
- George Eliot
They can do without architecture
who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
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
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 do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- 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
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 is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness.
I have walked myself into my best thoughts,
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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
Which beliefs bring out the best in you?
Which beliefs hold you prisoner to yesterday
and limit your options for designing a great future?
Test your beliefs with as much objectivity
as you can bring to the subject.
Be willing to let go of those beliefs
that represent your parents' opinions,
or your communities opinions, rather than your own.
Those beliefs that withstand rigorous testing,
should become the foundation of your being -
your reason for living.
Take action on those beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
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