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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
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You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
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Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is some good in the worst of us
and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this,
we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
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
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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 of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
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 and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
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
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
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
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
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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