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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- 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
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
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
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
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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 price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
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
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- 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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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