Facebook share Tweet This Email this
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Cynical
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- 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
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
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
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- 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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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 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 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
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
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
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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.
If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault,
but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you.
One has to have a positive attitude
and must make the best of the situation that one finds oneself in.
If one is physically disabled,
one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.
- Stephen Hawking
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- 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 way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
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 best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Thank you for visiting: The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. ... by Erica Jong.
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.