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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
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom
"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
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
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
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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 and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
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
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
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
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
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
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 greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
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
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
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
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
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
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