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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
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
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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 way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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 and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
"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
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
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Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
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Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
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
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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 best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
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.
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
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 keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- 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 has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
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