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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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 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 and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
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
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
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
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
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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
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
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
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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