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
Related topics: Wisdom
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- 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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- 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
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
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
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
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
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
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
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