The best way to cheer yourself
by Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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Sayings by Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
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Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Best Sayings
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
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- 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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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