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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
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
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
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
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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
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
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When the best leader's work is done the people 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
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 greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
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 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 predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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