The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong 
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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 best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- 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
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 common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- 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
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Die when I may, I want it said 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
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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