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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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
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
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
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 success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
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
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
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
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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
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
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
Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
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 is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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