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May you find inspiration in these thoughts and quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes from my large Daily Inspiration library of inspiring quotes and inspirational words.
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
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
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
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
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
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
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
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
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
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
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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