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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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 best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
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
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
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
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 fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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