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"Fair" is not a useful concept.
Life is not "fair."
You can't make life "fair."
You can get angry.
You can complain about life not being "fair."
You can attempt revenge - perhaps violently.
You can inflict great suffering upon yourself
in the name of life being "unfair."
And Life is still not "fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful
than the wound we suffered,
to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson
I forgive everyone for every "wrong"
that I believe they have ever inflicted upon me.
I forgive them for my own sake,
that I may release the venom -
the anger and resentment within myself -
and regain my joy and serenity.
I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;
every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Regrets and their cousins, resentments,
are a huge cause of self-inflicted suffering.
Sometimes it takes years of psychotherapy
to gain freedom from regrets about what you did or did not do,
and freedom from resentment over what others did or did not do.
Sometimes it takes a lifetime of self-talk to remember
to put the past in the past where it belongs.
However, sometimes a simple symbolic act can help immeasurably
to grant ourselves freedom from the past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laws are sand, customs are rock.
Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped,
but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
The penalty may be unfair, unrighteous, illogical, and a cruelty;
no matter, it will be inflicted, just the same.
Certainly, then, there can be but one wise thing
for a visiting stranger to do -
find out what the country's customs are,
and refrain from offending against them.
- 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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
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 relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
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
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
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