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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes by Wilson Mizner.
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
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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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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- 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 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 way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
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 predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
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
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
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 best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do your best, and always 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
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
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
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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 key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
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
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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 most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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