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Liber_ABA
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Savitri
The_Way_of_Perfection
Toward_the_Future

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0.05_-_Letters_to_a_Child
0.06_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Sadhak
0.07_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
0.14_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0_1959-05-25
0_1961-06-24
0_1962-06-27
0_1962-07-04
0_1964-08-08
0_1965-07-31
0_1966-06-25
0_1967-08-15
0_1969-02-08
0_1969-02-19
0_1969-09-27
0_1970-01-17
0_1970-09-05
0_1971-04-14
0_1971-10-27
0_1971-11-13
0_1971-12-04
06.01_-_The_End_of_a_Civilisation
06.03_-_Types_of_Meditation
07.05_-_This_Mystery_of_Existence
08.33_-_Opening_to_the_Divine
1.00b_-_INTRODUCTION
1.00_-_Preliminary_Remarks
1.01_-_Principles_of_Practical_Psycho_therapy
1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation
1.02_-_Where_I_Lived,_and_What_I_Lived_For
1.03_-_A_CAUCUS-RACE_AND_A_LONG_TALE
1.03_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Meeting_with_others
1.03_-_Reading
1.04_-_Of_other_imperfections_which_these_beginners_are_apt_to_have_with_respect_to_the_third_sin,_which_is_luxury.
1.06_-_Dhyana_and_Samadhi
1.070_-_The_Seven_Stages_of_Perfection
1.07_-_Cybernetics_and_Psychopathology
1.08_-_Psycho_therapy_Today
1.12_-_ON_THE_FLIES_OF_THE_MARKETPLACE
1.1.4_-_The_Physical_Mind_and_Sadhana
1.19_-_The_Practice_of_Magical_Evocation
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.38_-_Treats_of_the_great_need_which_we_have_to_beseech_the_Eternal_Father_to_grant_us_what_we_ask_in_these_words:_Et_ne_nos_inducas_in_tentationem,_sed_libera_nos_a_malo._Explains_certain_temptations._This_chapter_is_noteworthy.
1.4.02_-_The_Divine_Force
15.04_-_The_Mother_Abides
1914_02_11p
1929-04-21_-_Visions,_seeing_and_interpretation_-_Dreams_and_dreaml_and_-_Dreamless_sleep_-_Visions_and_formulation_-_Surrender,_passive_and_of_the_will_-_Meditation_and_progress_-_Entering_the_spiritual_life,_a_plunge_into_the_Divine
1951-02-17_-_False_visions_-_Offering_ones_will_-_Equilibrium_-_progress_-_maturity_-_Ardent_self-giving-_perfecting_the_instrument_-_Difficulties,_a_help_in_total_realisation_-_paradoxes_-_Sincerity_-_spontaneous_meditation
1951-04-05_-_Illusion_and_interest_in_action_-_The_action_of_the_divine_Grace_and_the_ego_-_Concentration,_aspiration,_will,_inner_silence_-_Value_of_a_story_or_a_language_-_Truth_-_diversity_in_the_world
1951-04-28_-_Personal_effort_-_tamas,_laziness_-_Static_and_dynamic_power_-_Stupidity_-_psychic_and_intelligence_-_Philosophies-_different_languages_-_Theories_of_Creation_-_Surrender_of_ones_being_and_ones_work
1953-04-08
1953-10-14
1954-07-28_-_Money_-_Ego_and_individuality_-_The_shadow
1954-12-08_-_Cosmic_consciousness_-_Clutching_-_The_central_will_of_the_being_-_Knowledge_by_identity
1954-12-22_-_Possession_by_hostile_forces_-_Purity_and_morality_-_Faith_in_the_final_success_-Drawing_back_from_the_path
1955-02-16_-_Losing_something_given_by_Mother_-_Using_things_well_-_Sadhak_collecting_soap-pieces_-_What_things_are_truly_indispensable_-_Natures_harmonious_arrangement_-_Riches_a_curse,_philanthropy_-_Misuse_of_things_creates_misery
1955-02-23_-_On_the_sense_of_taste,_educating_the_senses_-_Fasting_produces_a_state_of_receptivity,_drawing_energy_-_The_body_and_food
1955-04-27_-_Symbolic_dreams_and_visions_-_Curing_pain_by_various_methods_-_Different_states_of_consciousness_-_Seeing_oneself_dead_in_a_dream_-_Exteriorisation
1955-05-04_-_Drawing_on_the_universal_vital_forces_-_The_inner_physical_-_Receptivity_to_different_kinds_of_forces_-_Progress_and_receptivity
1956-01-04_-_Integral_idea_of_the_Divine_-_All_things_attracted_by_the_Divine_-_Bad_things_not_in_place_-_Integral_yoga_-_Moving_idea-force,_ideas_-_Consequences_of_manifestation_-_Work_of_Spirit_via_Nature_-_Change_consciousness,_change_world
1956-06-27_-_Birth,_entry_of_soul_into_body_-_Formation_of_the_supramental_world_-_Aspiration_for_progress_-_Bad_thoughts_-_Cerebral_filter_-_Progress_and_resistance
1956-08-08_-_How_to_light_the_psychic_fire,_will_for_progress_-_Helping_from_a_distance,_mental_formations_-_Prayer_and_the_divine_-_Grace_Grace_at_work_everywhere
1957-01-30_-_Artistry_is_just_contrast_-_How_to_perceive_the_Divine_Guidance?
1957-09-11_-_Vital_chemistry,_attraction_and_repulsion
1958-01-08_-_Sri_Aurobindos_method_of_exposition_-_The_mind_as_a_public_place_-_Mental_control_-_Sri_Aurobindos_subtle_hand
1958-04-23_-_Progress_and_bargaining
1958-07-30_-_The_planchette_-_automatic_writing_-_Proofs_and_knowledge
1958_09_19
1958-10-22_-_Spiritual_life_-_reversal_of_consciousness_-_Helping_others
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Electric_Executioner
1.rb_-_Bishop_Blougram's_Apology
1.rb_-_Fra_Lippo_Lippi
1.wby_-_The_Collar-Bone_Of_A_Hare
2.05_-_On_Poetry
2.07_-_The_Mother__Relations_with_Others
2.1.4.2_-_Teaching
2.14_-_On_Movements
2.1.5.1_-_Study_of_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Mother
2.18_-_January_1939
2.2.02_-_Becoming_Conscious_in_Work
2.20_-_Nov-Dec_1939
2.22_-_1941-1943
2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency
2.3.01_-_Aspiration_and_Surrender_to_the_Mother
2.3.01_-_Concentration_and_Meditation
2.3.05_-_Sadhana_through_Work_for_the_Mother
2.3.08_-_The_Mother's_Help_in_Difficulties
2.4.2_-_Interactions_with_Others_and_the_Practice_of_Yoga
2.4.3_-_Problems_in_Human_Relations
3.04_-_LUNA
3.05_-_The_Conjunction
3.12_-_ON_OLD_AND_NEW_TABLETS
3.2.04_-_The_Conservative_Mind_and_Eastern_Progress
3.21_-_Of_Black_Magic
4.1.3_-_Imperfections_and_Periods_of_Arrest
4.14_-_THE_SONG_OF_MELANCHOLY
4.2.1_-_The_Right_Attitude_towards_Difficulties
4.3.2_-_Attacks_by_the_Hostile_Forces
7.10_-_Order
BOOK_V._-_Of_fate,_freewill,_and_God's_prescience,_and_of_the_source_of_the_virtues_of_the_ancient_Romans
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
ENNEAD_04.04_-_Questions_About_the_Soul.
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2
The_Logomachy_of_Zos
The_Pilgrims_Progress

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"Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga

“Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.” Letters on Yoga



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   1 Thich Nhat Hanh
   1 Theodore Roosevelt
   1 Mother Mirra
   1 Charles Dickens
   1 Saint Teresa of Avila

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   17 Mehmet Murat ildan
   14 Anonymous
   12 L Frank Baum
   11 Lisa Wingate
   9 Stephen King
   9 Robert A Heinlein
   8 F Scott Fitzgerald
   7 Marilynne Robinson
   7 Frederick Lenz
   7 Carlos Ruiz Zaf n
   6 William Goldman
   6 Friedrich Nietzsche
   5 Timothy J Keller
   5 Theodore Roosevelt
   5 Penelope Ward
   5 Paul Auster
   5 Lauren Oliver
   5 Jodi Picoult
   5 Henry David Thoreau
   5 Ellen Hopkins

1:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
2:When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
3:There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. ~ Charles Dickens,
4:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
5:Control over one's speech is more important than complete silence. The best thing is to learn to say only what is useful in the most accurate and truthful way possible. ~ Mother Mirra,
6:It is only in quietness and peace that one can know what is the best thing to do.
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Elements of Yoga, Peace and Silence, Quiet, [T5],
7:Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. The best thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare ourselves for the new manifestation.
   This gives life its real sense and will help us to overcome all obstacles.
   Let us live for the new creation and we shall grow stronger and stronger by remaining young and progressive. 30 January 1972
   *
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,
8:I have already told you this several times. When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things.... Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you notice―first with astonishment, then later with a smile―that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, "Truly, the divine Grace is infinite."

So, when this sort of thing has happened to you a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of the blindness of man and deceptive appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in the state the world is in at that moment. It is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this.

But when one begins to see it, one enters upon a state of wonder which nothing can describe. For behind the appearances one perceives this Grace―infinite, wonderful, all-powerful―which knows all, organises all, arranges all, and leads us, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, that is, union with the Divine, the awareness of the Godhead and union with Him.

Then one lives in the Action and Presence of the Grace a life full of joy, of wonder, with the feeling of a marvellous strength, and at the same time with a trust so calm, so complete, that nothing can shake it any longer. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, 8 August 1956,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:Silence is often the best thing to say. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
2:The best thing I did was choose the right heroes. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
3:The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove
4:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
5:To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
6:The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
7:The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
8:The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
9:The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove
10:The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove
11:Every Englishman knows one thing - that to be an Englishman is the best thing there is. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove
12:The worst thing in life can become the best thing. The very thing that awakens you.   ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
13:Be careful lest in casting out the devils you cast out the best thing that’s in you. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove
14:My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
15:So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove
16:If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
17:The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove
18:If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove
19:Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
20:Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove
21:When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
22:If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
23:I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
24:I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
25:I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
26:The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
27:In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
28:You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
29:Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove
30:The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove
31:The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
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33:I talked to her about it. She said that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. When it broke in the press is was almost a release for her. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
34:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
35:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove
36:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.) ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove
37:In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove
38:The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove
39:All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove
40:My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
41:The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
42:People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
43:That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
44:Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
45:I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
46:As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove
47:I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
48:So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
49:The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
50:Give up all sorts of fears, worries, anxieties and cares. Do not be disheartened by failures and setbacks. Draw strength and courage from God dwelling in the chamber of your heart. Pain is the best thing in the world. It is an eye-opener. It awakens your dormant faculties. Never forget this. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove
51:We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
52:When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
53:I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove
54:There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
55:Satan gains more ground in the believer's life through unforgiveness than any other thing, so be sure you let go of all offense and pray for those who have hurt you. It may be hard, but it is the best thing you can do for yourself and the kingdom of God. Don't stay angry at anyone today because it will hurt you more than it hurts them. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
56:The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove
57:If you own a wonderful business... the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
58:Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
59:Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if youve got talent yourself, and youve maximized your talent, youve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
60:I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
61:We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
62:I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
63:The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a thing. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody;d hear you, and you couldn't expect anybody to find you, and you'd have centipedes and spiders crawling all over you, and the bones of the ones who died before are scattered all around you, and it's dark and soggy, and way overhead there's this tiny, tiny circle of light like a winter moon. You die there in this place, little by little, all by yourself. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
64:When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
65:The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
66:It should be for satsang that we go to spiritual centers. By going there, people who are involved in the world can attain peace and concentration. The concentration gained when one goes there cannot be achieved if one sits at home. Even though the breeze blows everywhere, coolness will be felt more if we sit in the shade of a tree. In the same way, although God is all-pervading, this presence will clearly shine in certain places more than others. That is the greatness of satsang. Satsang is the best thing for spiritual advancement. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove
67:Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, I can't believe this happened to me. And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, I must be on the wrong path. But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path? ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
68:Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, I can't believe this happened to me. And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, I must be on the wrong path. But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path? ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
69:But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be found in the heart, in an inner motion of the spirit towards him and striving for him, and not just in thinking about him always and in the same way. For that would be beyond the capacity of our nature and would be very difficult to achieve and would not even be the best thing to do. We should not content ourselves with the God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove

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1:HYPERBOLE IS THE BEST THING EVER! ~ Eileen Wilks,
2:Wikipedia is the best thing ever. ~ Michael Scott,
3:The best thing in life aren't things. ~ John Ruskin,
4:The best thing to break is a contract. ~ W C Fields,
5:The best thing that ever happened to me. ~ E L James,
6:The best thing about London is Paris. ~ Diana Vreeland,
7:And learn that the best thing is ~ William Butler Yeats,
8:Silence is often the best thing to say. ~ Frank Herbert,
9:It's the best thing going, parenthood. ~ Woody Harrelson,
10:Be yourself,its the best thing you can be. ~ Selena Gomez,
11:The best thing about writing is the reader ~ Girish Kohli,
12:The best thing you can do is follow your dreams ~ The Rev,
13:The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience. ~ Rita Ora,
14:What was the best thing before sliced bread? ~ George Carlin,
15:Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do. ~ Greyson Chance,
16:The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. ~ Meg Ryan,
17:Getting married was the best thing I've ever done. ~ Megan Fox,
18:Being in the moment is the best thing I can do. ~ Taissa Farmiga,
19:The best thing about me is there are no skeletons. ~ David Cross,
20:The best thing about this band is I'm the leader! ~ Keith Emerson,
21:We’re better than a good thing. We’re the best thing. ~ Ker Dukey,
22:You're as good as the best thing you've ever done. ~ Billy Wilder,
23:Karate is the best thing you can do for your child. ~ Chuck Norris,
24:The best thing I did was choose the right heroes. ~ Warren Buffett,
25:THE BEST THING TO DO BEHIND A PERSON’S BACK IS PAT IT. ~ Anonymous,
26:We just wanted to build the best thing we could build ~ Steve Jobs,
27:You’re the best thing to ever happen to me twice. ~ Suanne Laqueur,
28:Having money is just the best thing in the world. ~ Madonna Ciccone,
29:The best thing a person can be is of-some-use. ~ Julianna Margulies,
30:The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. ~ T H White,
31:The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ Audrey Hepburn,
32:To be simple is the best thing in the world. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,
33:You still smell like the best thing I’ve ever tasted. ~ Lauren Dane,
34:I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace. ~ Alessia Cara,
35:that whatever he was touting was the best thing he ~ Walter Isaacson,
36:The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans. ~ Thia Megia,
37:The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Dave Chappelle,
38:Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul. ~ Renzo Gracie,
39:The best thing about money is not worrying about money. ~ Jason Ellis,
40:The best thing to do is to treat all your days well. ~ David Levithan,
41:You are the best thing that has ever happened to you. ~ Andrea Gibson,
42:You've gotta be the best thing I never knew I wanted ~ Mariana Zapata,
43:The best thing about animals is they don't talk much ~ Thornton Wilder,
44:The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders. ~ Ivan Slavkov,
45:What happened to you?"
"I lost the best thing I had. ~ Bella Jewel,
46:You are the best thing that has every happened to you. ~ Andrea Gibson,
47:You're only as good as the best thing you've ever done. ~ Billy Wilder,
48:You’ve gotta be the best thing I never knew I wanted. ~ Mariana Zapata,
49:The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it. ~ Philip Johnson,
50:The best thing to ever come out of your mouth was my cock. ~ M Robinson,
51:The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home. ~ Gary Snyder,
52:Falling in love with you was the best thing I ever did. ~ Kristin Hannah,
53:I think hope is just about the best thing a person can have ~ Joan Bauer,
54:I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere. ~ Malcolm X,
55:The best thing about being God would be making the heads. ~ Iris Murdoch,
56:The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife. ~ Paul McCartney,
57:The Simpsons is the best thing on American television. ~ Stephen Hawking,
58:Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me. ~ Paula Patton,
59:Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's. ~ Marianne Faithfull,
60:To play for your country is the best thing that can happen. ~ Ruud Gullit,
61:I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had. ~ Kimberly Lauren,
62:Life is the best thing that's ever been invented. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
63:The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores. ~ Al McGuire,
64:Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Ted Shackelford,
65:The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow. ~ Tim Tharp,
66:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
67:The best thing must be to flee from all to the All. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
68:The best thing there is to do when there is temptation is run. ~ Johnny Hunt,
69:And isn’t that the best thing—to not like something together? ~ Tarryn Fisher,
70:easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. ~ Nick Hornby,
71:Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. ~ Linus Torvalds,
72:Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose. ~ Alan Cheuse,
73:It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life. ~ Novak Djokovic,
74:Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Marilyn French,
75:Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. ~ William Goldman,
76:The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it! ~ Lena Horne,
77:The best thing about waking up early is seeing the sun rise. ~ Bridgit Mendler,
78:The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready. ~ Willem Dafoe,
79:The best thing I ever did in my life was make you mine, Stace. ~ Kristen Proby,
80:The best thing in life is moving on’ Traditional Evenk saying Join ~ Ray Mears,
81:The best thing Valentine ever did for me was send me to you. ~ Cassandra Clare,
82:Kissing is the best thing lips do other than smiling.” Cassandra ~ Lisa Kleypas,
83:The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas. ~ Tony Grisoni,
84:The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could. ~ John R Allen,
85:The best thing in a girl’s life is a father she can count on. ~ Kristan Higgins,
86:The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them ~ Andrew Matthews,
87:Ava Christensen had been the best thing in my life but I ruined us. ~ Emery Rose,
88:I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever! ~ Jill Flint,
89:sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen ~ Candace Bushnell,
90:The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. ~ Jen Lancaster,
91:The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. ~ Bob Hope,
92:The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time, ~ Terri Reid,
93:The best thing you can do for a writer is give them a bad review. ~ Eileen Myles,
94:Fine writing, next to doing nothing, is the best thing in the world. ~ John Keats,
95:Maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet. ~ Ann Curry,
96:The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. ~ Dan Quayle,
97:The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother. ~ Adriana Trigiani,
98:To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
99:The best thing you can do is just go and have fun with [competition]. ~ Jon Gordon,
100:Fine writing, next to doing nothing, is the best thing in the world. – ~ John Keats,
101:Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself. ~ Silas House,
102:sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen ~ Candace Bushnell,
103:The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ~ Dorothy Day,
104:True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. ~ William Goldman,
105:You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer. ~ Lang Leav,
106:Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure. ~ Nicolas Cage,
107:The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone. ~ Sid Caesar,
108:The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln,
109:The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse. ~ R F Delderfield,
110:The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich. ~ Mario Diaz Balart,
111:The best thing I've done? Well, I've created four beautiful children. ~ Donald Trump,
112:The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button. ~ Rick Reilly,
113:The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you ~ Michael Dell,
114:This could be the best thing for us, after it stops being the worst. ~ Renee Carlino,
115:Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. ~ Donald Sadoway,
116:The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ~ Abraham Lincoln,
117:The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ John Wooden,
118:The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. ~ Douglas William Jerrold,
119:the best thing to do is give people questions they’re not expecting. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
120:The best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode. ~ Donald Trump,
121:In my position, I think the best thing I do is just keep girlfriend involved. ~ Kid Ink,
122:The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been. ~ Warren Miller,
123:When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango. ~ Marina Abramovic,
124:Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,
125:The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child. ~ Victor Ponta,
126:The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. ~ Virginia Woolf,
127:When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. ~ Harold MacMillan,
128:With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. ~ Keisha Buchanan,
129:Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter ~ Cherry Adair,
130:Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
131:The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid. ~ Allen Ginsberg,
132:The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of. ~ Brigid Schulte,
133:The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close. ~ Joel Madden,
134:The best thing that happened is I kept my promises. I ain't run out on nobody. ~ Fetty Wap,
135:If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing. ~ Daniel Cudmore,
136:I see the way she looks at you like you’re the best thing since yoga pants. ~ Adriana Locke,
137:The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun! ~ Shania Twain,
138:The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere. ~ Caroline B Cooney,
139:The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
140:The best thing about being old is you don't have to worry about dieing young. ~ Stephen King,
141:The best thing the universe ever gave us is that we'll all be forgotten ~ Krystal Sutherland,
142:The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind. ~ George Saunders,
143:It could be that the best thing is something different from what you expect. ~ Katherine Howe,
144:La Sagrada Familia is the best thing to come out of Spain since ‘Don Quixote. ~ Andrew Barger,
145:Thats the best thing about endings: they have to be beginnings, too. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith,
146:The best thing about a dog is that no matter what, he always welcomes you home. ~ Ginny Aiken,
147:The best thing about killing is nothing can compensate the damages one makes. ~ M F Moonzajer,
148:The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around. ~ Max Weinberg,
149:The best thing the universe ever gave us is that we'll all be forgotten. ~ Krystal Sutherland,
150:The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him. ~ Terry Bradshaw,
151:What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. ~ Dorothy Allison,
152:Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing. ~ Adriana Trigiani,
153:I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself. ~ Jaime Winstone,
154:Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. - John Tyree ~ Nicholas Sparks,
155:The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more. ~ Charlie Munger,
156:The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once. ~ Pietro Aretino,
157:The Best Thing To Find Yourself Is To Loose Yourself In The Service Of Others ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
158:The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. ~ Jack Welch,
159:At times the best thing you can do for someone is to refuse to help them. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
160:happier. The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ John Wooden,
161:I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier. ~ Julie Andrews,
162:Just remember that loving you has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. ~ Belle Ami,
163:Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing can happen to a great mind. ~ Ken Robinson,
164:The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. ~ Jim Butcher,
165:The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories. ~ Sydney J Harris,
166:The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
167:Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career ~ Conan O Brien,
168:Getting fired,” Tyler says, “is the best thing that could happen to any of us. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
169:He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Coco J Ginger,
170:Make me see”—perhaps the best thing we can hope to accomplish from an explanation. ~ Lee LeFever,
171:Q: What is the best thing men do? A: To be kind, to be proud, to be fearless. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
172:The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' ~ Ivor Cutler,
173:The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history. ~ Gary Chapman,
174:The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. ~ Diablo Cody,
175:Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Lee Van Cleef,
176:To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray,
177:Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense. ~ DeForest Kelley,
178:The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
179:The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree. ~ Homer,
180:You know what the best thing about purses was? They could carry around books. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,
181:And why not do the easiest possible thing? Because isn’t that always the best thing? ~ Lev Grossman,
182:If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked. ~ Jay Maisel,
183:if you want to be able to talk about a place, the best thing to do is stay at home. ~ Pierre Bayard,
184:Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing. ~ Jodi Picoult,
185:Stop drinking was the best thing I've done in my entire life. I'm so happy I did that. ~ Lara Stone,
186:The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. ~ Colleen McCullough,
187:The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. ~ Terry Pratchett,
188:The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself. ~ Karl Lagerfeld,
189:Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do. ~ Daniel Craig,
190:Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo! ~ Ric Flair,
191:About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh. ~ Ted Levine,
192:Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
193:I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. ~ Hunter Hayes,
194:If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. My ~ Phil Knight,
195:If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents ~ Robert Browning,
196:Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. ~ W C Fields,
197:Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. ~ Ken Robinson,
198:Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face. ~ Joan Bauer,
199:The best thing about feeling yourself tiny is that you start wishing to be big! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
200:The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost, ~ Walter Isaacson,
201:The best thing we can do for a young person is to expect a great deal from them. ~ Gerald Chertavian,
202:The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly. ~ Boy George,
203:To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray,
204:When no one believes a word you say, the best thing you can do is stop talking. ~ Anthony Ray Hinton,
205:You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them. ~ Guy Wilson,
206:If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. ~ Robert Browning,
207:I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do. ~ Alex Turner,
208:I’m afraid I’m in love with you and that’s not the best thing that could happen. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
209:it was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness ~ Banana Yoshimoto,
210:Learning may be the best thing we have. It may be all that we can truly keep, Lorie, ~ Larry McMurtry,
211:The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. ~ Andy Warhol,
212:The best thing about becoming successful is that you get flowers all the time. ~ Downtown Julie Brown,
213:The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal. ~ Martin O Neill,
214:The best thing you can ever do for the people who love you is to make it home alive. ~ Seanan McGuire,
215:I've stolen a lot. Let me think about the best thing I've stolen. Stolen a lot of hearts. ~ Rob Huebel,
216:Most likely,’ Chiron said. ‘But, Percy, they will be fine. The best thing we can do for ~ Rick Riordan,
217:My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people. ~ Maya Angelou,
218:Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. ~ David Johansen,
219:sometimes the best thing you can do is to drown what’s wrong in a sea of what’s right. ~ Eric Greitens,
220:So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. ~ A A Milne,
221:The best thing about a photograph is that it never changes. Even if the people in it do. ~ Andy Warhol,
222:The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. ~ John Tukey,
223:The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love. ~ Alison Pill,
224:The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero. ~ Bert Blyleven,
225:The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger... ~ Sarah Waters,
226:You see, sometimes in life, the best thing for all that ails you has fur and four legs. ~ Mark J Asher,
227:Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health. ~ Joan Jett,
228:I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something. ~ Elle Fanning,
229:The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner. ~ Mark Helprin,
230:The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love. ~ Russell Brand,
231:The Internet may be the best thing yet for improving an autistic person’s social life. ~ Temple Grandin,
232:But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world. ~ Joan Bauer,
233:Finding him that day was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because then I found you. ~ N R Walker,
234:For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
235:It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love. ~ Samael Aun Weor,
236:it was obviously the best thing to do if both Britain and France were against it. After ~ Liaquat Ahamed,
237:sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong. ~ Nadia Bolz Weber,
238:That’s the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away. ~ E E Knight,
239:The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere. ~ Jermain Defoe,
240:The best thing I ever did in life was nothing, and I got a medal for it. I was a hero once. ~ Hugh Howey,
241:The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. ~ Liv Ullmann,
242:The best thing I can do is tell you the truth, or at least, what I think is the truth. ~ Victoria Aveyard,
243:When you're a kid in a one-bedroom in the projects, rich is the best thing anybody can be. ~ Angie Thomas,
244:Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself. ~ Ellen Wong,
245:I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me. ~ Jeremy Miller,
246:I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done. ~ Carmelo Anthony,
247:Maybe you can't save the world, but you'll never stop trying. It's the best thing about you. ~ Ann Aguirre,
248:Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson. ~ Jon Voight,
249:The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. ~ Jodi Picoult,
250:The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some. ~ Bruce Jay Friedman,
251:The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning. ~ Paddy Chayefsky,
252:Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career. ~ Rebecca Mader,
253:writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! ~ Mario Vargas Llosa,
254:He let me be me, even when he worried that being me wasn’t necessarily the best thing for me. ~ Kathi Daley,
255:The best thing about being fifteen is that you don’t have to be fifteen for more than a year. ~ Paul Auster,
256:The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change. ~ LeBron James,
257:The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do. ~ Michael Swanwick,
258:The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart. ~ Abbey Lincoln,
259:Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life. ~ Larry David,
260:I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings. ~ Mike Vallely,
261:I love you. Don't ever doubt that you're the best thing that has ever happened to me. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds,
262:There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters. ~ Courteney Cox,
263:To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. ~ Mickey Mantle,
264:I guess the best thing I do of all is ride. Horsemanship, I have a natural flair for it. ~ Sylvester Stallone,
265:Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. ~ Bill Belichick,
266:The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. ~ Russell Banks,
267:The best thing for a bachelor is to get a wife who will really cooperate in the great work. ~ Samael Aun Weor,
268:They would be enchanted beginners all over again, ... . That was the best thing to be in life. ~ Deborah Levy,
269:We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it. ~ Maggie Smith,
270:When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
271:Being in rehab it's no fun. But afterwards it's like the best thing ever. I didn't want to leave. ~ Lara Stone,
272:If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. ~ John Steinbeck,
273:I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me. ~ Jenny Slate,
274:Sacrificing myself to kill Hilary Clinton was the best thing I could possibly do for humanity ~ Jeff Foxworthy,
275:The best thing about living at the beach is that you only have assholes on three sides of you. ~ George Carlin,
276:The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can. ~ Christopher Fry,
277:The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. ~ Craig Groeschel,
278:Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me. ~ Taya Kyle,
279:I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse. ~ Peter Cameron,
280:Sometimes the best thing you could do for a person was just be there, no matter the circumstances. ~ J J McAvoy,
281:This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys. ~ Daniel Handler,
282:When you’re in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
283:I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world. ~ Demetri Martin,
284:I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina. ~ Arne Duncan,
285:Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it. ~ Bill Nye,
286:The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing. ~ Pat Conroy,
287:The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others. ~ Fred Shuttlesworth,
288:The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. ~ Frederick Lenz,
289:You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again. ~ Douglas Coupland,
290:Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach. ~ Arthur Rimbaud,
291:The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. ~ Rosecrans Baldwin,
292:The best thing I can do is keep that girl’s mind—and her mouth—busy.
This ought to be fun. ~ Michelle Leighton,
293:The best thing is to know. I always tell ’em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. ~ Lisa Wingate,
294:The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
295:Until you two came along, she was the best thing that happened to me in my whole goddamned life. ~ Kristen Ashley,
296:When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat. ~ Wayne Coyne,
297:I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision. ~ Patrice Leconte,
298:Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works. ~ Charles Lamb,
299:Sometimes the worst thing you can do, personally, is the best thing you can do, professionally. ~ Andrew Kreisberg,
300:The best thing about being a man is to get to make love to the most beautiful creation of God…Woman. ~ Shikha Kaul,
301:The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. ~ Orson Welles,
302:the best thing to do was let the water flow; in time the river would carry the bad blood away. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
303:the best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of. ~ Robyn Carr,
304:When i said nothing, the best thing that happened to me in three years left. Damn, i was an idiot. ~ Katie McGarry,
305:I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
306:It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break. ~ Akshay Kumar,
307:The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt. ~ Dov Davidoff,
308:The best thing in the universe is to be united to Christ. To be in Christ. To enjoy union with Christ. ~ John Piper,
309:The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet ~ Kentaro Yabuki,
310:The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time. ~ Lorene Scafaria,
311:The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
312:whether in peace or in war, man generally speaking is the best thing that ever happened to the gods. ~ Jos Saramago,
313:You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine. ~ Taylor Swift,
314:I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. ~ Kathy Acker,
315:I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out. ~ Morgan Freeman,
316:It made leaving bearable, knowing I'd had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I'd had the best thing. ~ Saul Black,
317:Oh, you just might be the best thing to happen to the Foxes." "I doubt that." "I don't." Nicky beamed ~ Nora Sakavic,
318:Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. ~ Heinrich Heine,
319:Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time. ~ Snoop Dogg,
320:Sometimes failure is the best thing that can happen to you if you learn to listen to the lessons in it. ~ Jeff Goins,
321:Sometimes the best thing you could do for a person was just be there, no matter the circumstances. Kind ~ J J McAvoy,
322:The best thing to do with a mimeograph is to drop it from a five story window, on the head of a cop ~ Diane di Prima,
323:The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him. ~ George Weigel,
324:You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst. ~ Clive Barker,
325:I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life. ~ Simon Van Booy,
326:I would lay down everything I posses, even my soul. If that isn't love, it's the best thing have. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick,
327:The best thing about being in a place like New York is the feeling you can lose yourself and start over. ~ Lane Hayes,
328:The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. ~ Leonardo Sciascia,
329:you’re taken to the woodshed, the best thing you can do is wait out the whipping and shut up.” “That’s ~ Stephen King,
330:Abraham Lincoln. He once said that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother. ~ John Wooden,
331:doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
332:If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital. ~ Marsden Wagner,
333:I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
334:I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived. ~ Samuel G Freedman,
335:We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them. ~ Michael O Leary,
336:Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. ~ Manuel Rivas,
337:Have a healthy mental attitude; that's the most important thing and the best thing you can do for yourself. ~ Arden Cho,
338:If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy. ~ Goswami Kriyananda,
339:I’ve had a good life, you know that,” he whispered. “Even so, you’re the best thing that’s been in it. ~ Kristen Ashley,
340:Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. ~ Philip Roth,
341:Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about? ~ Janice Hardy,
342:Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world. ~ Simon Cowell,
343:The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields. ~ Geoff Johns,
344:The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly. ~ Tucker Carlson,
345:I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. ~ Neil Simon,
346:I realized that sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is talk honestly about being wrong. ~ Nadia Bolz Weber,
347:When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? ~ Nhat Hanh,
348:For those who are letting age get in the way of love. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ Audrey Hepburn,
349:I always try to get at least eight hours of sleep each night. It's the best thing I can do for my body. ~ Candace Cameron,
350:If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. ~ Aldous Huxley,
351:I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway. ~ Jenna Lyons,
352:Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.
“What?” said Dash.
“True love. ~ Rachel Cohn,
353:The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves. ~ Agnes Obel,
354:Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you. ~ Warren Buffett,
355:No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget. ~ Joyce Maynard,
356:So perhaps the best thing to do is simply be aware of how much venting is okay and how much is too much. ~ Richard Carlson,
357:The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life. ~ Terry Bozzio,
358:The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience. ~ Bill Hader,
359:The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries. ~ Harry Markopolos,
360:Welcome to life in a small town. You’re only as good as the best thing your family’s done. Or the worst. ~ Karen M McManus,
361:I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
362:I was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him. ~ Paul Auster,
363:The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. ~ Orson Scott Card,
364:The best thing about Valentine’s Day is that if you don’t have a lover, you badly remember to get one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
365:The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~ Nancy E Turner,
366:Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him. ~ Jill Shalvis,
367:Whether in peace or in war, man, generally speaking, is the best thing that could have happened to the gods. ~ Jos Saramago,
368:You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing. ~ Steve Carell,
369:And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
370:As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number. ~ Ken MacLeod,
371:I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
372:It was the best thing that could have happened to him, it was the worst thing that could have happened to him. ~ Paul Auster,
373:Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking. ~ Tim Ferriss,
374:That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. ~ Michael Chabon,
375:The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. ~ George F Kennan,
376:The best thing with crazy people, Grandma Win used to say – the only thing, really – is to be somewhere else. ~ Jenny Offill,
377:...the Piedra Lumbre is the best thing I've ever known in New Mexico---the closest thing to God, I guess. ~ Georgia O Keeffe,
378:The best thing about my mom being such
a bitch is not worrying
about trying to make her
proud of me. ~ Ellen Hopkins,
379:The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film. ~ Denis Leary,
380:the best thing you can give a child you love is happy memories and a foundation they can be proud of.” Something ~ Robyn Carr,
381:Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat. ~ Joe Bastianich,
382:Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you. ~ Willow Smith,
383:Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything. ~ Gary Shteyngart,
384:If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you. ~ Donna Lynn Hope,
385:When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
386:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
387:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon,
388:If it was allowed, it would be the best thing we could do, to take these knives and drive them into our own hearts. ~ C S Lewis,
389:I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it. ~ Jeff Beck,
390:I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing. ~ Larry Fitzgerald,
391:Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him. ~ Walter Isaacson,
392:The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different. ~ Viggo Mortensen,
393:The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar. ~ Ben Howard,
394:I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else. ~ Patricia Heaton,
395:I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model. ~ Tim McGraw,
396:I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager. ~ Sam Altman,
397:Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
398:The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it. ~ Dylan Lauren,
399:When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it ~ George R R Martin,
400:I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life ~ Nicholas Sparks,
401:In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
402:'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken. ~ Jodie Foster,
403:If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction. ~ George Leonard,
404:I guess the best thing you can do is just be there. You don't have to think her's right. But you do have to be there. ~ Jojo Moyes,
405:Mistakes don't have to be wounds. A mistake can sometimes be the best thing that can happen to a person. ~ Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli,
406:To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear ~ Marilynne Robinson,
407:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?... They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
408:For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do. ~ Sidney Crosby,
409:Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well. ~ Mac Miller,
410:The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities. ~ Dennis Lehane,
411:The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news. ~ Derek Webb,
412:The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully. ~ Mark Helprin,
413:To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
414:I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine. ~ Mel Gibson,
415:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
416:. . .I think a lot of people just don't want to go back. Sometimes that's the best thing to do--to live in the present. ~ Jamie Ford,
417:The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book. ~ Edward Abbey,
418:The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do. ~ Laurie Anderson,
419:The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that. ~ Bo Ryan,
420:There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing. ~ Willow Smith,
421:the worst person who ever lived, and the best thing about him is that his hair looks like cotton candy made of piss. ~ Penn Jillette,
422:do. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
423:I always thought New Year’s resolutions were bullshit, but that was literally the best thing that’s ever happened to me. ~ Ranae Rose,
424:I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn. ~ Lawrence Hill,
425:The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do? ~ Douglas Booth,
426:The best thing that could happen for the president Donald Trump, and the country, is a full and credible investigation. ~ Marco Rubio,
427:But she also knew that the best thing about breaking a barrier was that it would never have to be broken again. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly,
428:I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win. ~ Rodney Crowell,
429:Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel. ~ Jordan Peele,
430:...tell me...the best thing that has ever happened to you.'
'The best? Oh, I'm kind of hoping it hasn't happened yet. ~ Jojo Moyes,
431:You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something! ~ Allan Gurganus,
432:I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had! ~ Beyonce Knowles,
433:The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others. ~ Ricky Gervais,
434:"You can't keep kids safe. The best thing that you can do is make them able and courageous. It's absolutely crucial." ~ Jordan Peterson,
435:I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool ~ Anonymous,
436:In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald. ~ Woody Allen,
437:It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection. ~ Albert Einstein,
438:Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life. ~ Bear Grylls,
439:Finding him that day was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because then I found you.” “Finders keepers?” “For always. ~ N R Walker,
440:The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business. ~ Irene Rosenfeld,
441:To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,
442:"You can't keep kids safe. The best thing that you can do is make them able and courageous. It's absolutely crucial." ~ Jordan B Peterson,
443:If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. ~ Aldous Huxley,
444:I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful. ~ Adriana Trigiani,
445:So I thought the best thing for me is a place so different that all you got to do is open your eyes and you're entertained. ~ Ray Bradbury,
446:sometimes the best thing to do is rewrite history, or at least our perspective about it, just enough to help us keep going. ~ Nesly Clerge,
447:The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore. ~ Gary Shteyngart,
448:The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof. ~ Ralph Lauren,
449:The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well. ~ Natalie Portman,
450:You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months. ~ Marco Rubio,
451:Being a fangirl is the best thing that's ever happened to me. ...We know what we're into, we love hard, and we're okay with it. ~ Sam Maggs,
452:I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor. ~ Matthew Lillard,
453:In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Caroline Kennedy,
454:I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left. ~ Patti Davis,
455:No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny ~ Louis L Amour,
456:Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them. ~ Brenda Jackson,
457:The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. ~ Glenn Close,
458:The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody. ~ Ice Cube,
459:The best thing to do when you’re in this world, don’t you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line,
460:Sliding off the highway was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” “You didn’t know it, angel, but you were coming home. ~ Pamela Clare,
461:The best thing for a child, I am convinced, is to have what I should term healthy neglect on the part of both its parents. ~ Agatha Christie,
462:The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton. ~ CM Punk,
463:This is the best thing I’ve ever done,” he said. And he pushed into her, hungry to take the step for his own mankind. Daisy ~ Suanne Laqueur,
464:High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it. ~ Monique Coleman,
465:I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion. ~ Spike Lee,
466:I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs. ~ Frank Zappa,
467:The best thing that can ever happen to a human being is a job," he says. "You don't have a job, you're going to die!" Foreman was ~ Anonymous,
468:The best thing you can do about yesterday is to forget it. Whether you succeeded or failed, it’s over. It’s time to look ahead. ~ Joyce Meyer,
469:This feels safe and steadfast and predictable and secure. It’s boring as shit. And it’s easily the best thing I’ve ever felt. ~ Samantha Irby,
470:What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots ~ Bobby Knight,
471:The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does. ~ Anne Stuart,
472:The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible. ~ W Somerset Maugham,
473:When people hurt us, the best thing to do isn’t to ask why they did it but to remind ourselves that it wasn’t our fault. ~ Michael Thomas Ford,
474:Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
475:I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men. ~ Eva Longoria,
476:I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better. ~ Drew Carey,
477:The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
478:In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~ Linda Ellerbee,
479:The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want. ~ Brion James,
480:The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information. ~ Eric Schmidt,
481:You were the best thing that ever happened to me. I hope someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you. ~ Penelope Ward,
482:You were the best thing that ever happened to me. I hope someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it’s only you. ~ Penelope Ward,
483:If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do ~ Lindsey Kelk,
484:When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again. ~ Camilo Jose Cela,
485:I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
486:I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
487:it's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count. ~ Tim Tharp,
488:Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever. ~ Ron Conway,
489:I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
490:in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of. I have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of Amsterdam, ~ Bram Stoker,
491:I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodsman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
492:Oh, dear spirits below, this is the best thing that I have ever been privy to. Lord Ackerly shadowed a commoner from the colonies! ~ Kiersten White,
493:Sometimes, love can't make everything better, and the best thing for everyone is to walk away. No matter how much it may hurt. ~ A Meredith Walters,
494:The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity. ~ Charles Brandt,
495:The best thing you can give a person is the courage and the desire to go beyond his culture, that little limited world of his! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
496:You were the best thing that ever happen to me. I hope that someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you. ~ Penelope Ward,
497:Animals are my Business!Daniel Kirk ’s books tell human stories with a menagerie of different animals. The best thing about illustrating ~ Anonymous,
498:But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked. ~ Susan Fletcher,
499:I love motion capture. I think it's the best thing, ever. It's wonderful. It gives you an incredible freedom to just play things out. ~ Grant Bowler,
500:More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin,
501:Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again. ~ Gilda Radner,
502:Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing. ~ Sarah Noffke,
503:The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. ~ Dick Powell,
504:The best thing is to grieve for the people you loved and lost, and then welcome and love the new people life puts in front of you. ~ Mark T Sullivan,
505:The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!" ~ Kurt Fuller,
506:[A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...]. ~ Alan W Watts,
507:He was a powerful man, virile and intimidating, but I drank him up, his anger and violence, like it was the best thing I’d ever tasted. ~ Meg Collett,
508:I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people. ~ Kate Hudson,
509:I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out. ~ Ben Barnes,
510:I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread. ~ Dexter Fletcher,
511:It’s not something I regret. Having you in my life has been the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I mean it. I really do. ~ Sarah A Denzil,
512:Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile--true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. ~ William Goldman,
513:Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity. ~ Cassandra Clare,
514:I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. ~ Charles Bukowski,
515:I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people. ~ James Brown,
516:I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion. ~ Sharon Stone,
517:The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant. ~ Roy Wood,
518:The best thing you can say about an ending is that it made you happy you read it, but sad that it's over. It really is that simple. 23. ~ Chuck Wendig,
519:Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line,
520:In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ~ Sun Tzu,
521:It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ David Bowie,
522:The best thing about talking to yourself is at least you know you're listening. With anyone else, you can never really be sure. 08-10-2012 ~ Jan Thomas,
523:The best thing about the Internet is that it's limited to however you want to do it. You don't gotta talk to everybody, just use it as a outlet. ~ E 40,
524:the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. ~ Carol S Dweck,
525:Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it. ~ W C Fields,
526:If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do. ~ Nikki Giovanni,
527:Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it. ~ Stephen King,
528:Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind. ~ Lauren Bacall,
529:I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always
have. ~ Charles Bukowski,
530:If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass. ~ Lawrence Block,
531:Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change. ~ Jack Johnson,
532:The best thing for soothing a disappointed mind is oxygen. A couple of deep inhalations of the old “O” rejuvenates every cell in the body. ~ Alan Bradley,
533:The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on ~ Frank Lloyd Wright,
534:The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright,
535:The best thing to do—usually—was to let him play these things out. Who was I to tell a genius it was time to put his clothes back on? ~ Kristopher Jansma,
536:And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. ~ A A Milne,
537:He could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquillity. That was the best thing the moon could give a person. ~ Haruki Murakami,
538:If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced. ~ Frederick Lenz,
539:I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing. ~ Mackenzie Davis,
540:The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That’s happiness. ~ Pearl S Buck,
541:The best thing is to grieve for the people you loved and lost, and then welcome and love the new people life puts in front of you.” Pino ~ Mark T Sullivan,
542:The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. ~ Carol S Dweck,
543:When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
544:You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
545:If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false,” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting. ~ Dexter Palmer,
546:I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do. ~ Frank Capra,
547:The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba. ~ Sarah Kate Lynch,
548:The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people. ~ Brother Theodore,
549:The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks. ~ Thomas Lennon,
550:The best thing you can do about the wild horses is to leave them alone! Leave the wild life alone, then you will be the best protector! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
551:They say I bring nothing but black, darkness. Though, when I’m with you, all I see is color, and fuck, it’s the best thing I’ve ever seen, Rose, ~ T L Smith,
552:Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
553:Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life. ~ Sherry Stringfield,
554:The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know. ~ Sarah Manguso,
555:With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion. ~ Diora Baird,
556:And that’s the best thing about this crazy journey: I am forgetting that I’m an old man instead of the Alzheimer’s reminding me by forgetting ~ Jonathan Dunne,
557:At the end of the day, I love eating duck. It's the best thing you can eat on this earth, especially grilled with jalapenos and cream cheese. ~ Jase Robertson,
558:I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Leigh Anne Pinnock,
559:It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example. ~ Cheryl Hines,
560:No, the best thing to do was to get the heck out of the bathroom and find a teacher, or a cop, or an exorcist. I’d take anyone at this point. ~ Rachel Hawkins,
561:Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift." George Amberson/ Jake Epping in "11/22/63 ~ Stephen King,
562:Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell ’em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain’t no other good way of livin’. ~ Lisa Wingate,
563:The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. ~ Orison Swett Marden,
564:If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing. ~ Aristotle,
565:I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had. ~ Miranda Otto,
566:most beautiful thing I think I’ve ever seen when I’m inside you and you are enjoying us being together.” “That’s the best thing anyone has ever ~ Laurann Dohner,
567:My old man was a walking, talking master class. But in the end, the main thing I learned—the best thing—was never to bring a knife to a gunfight. ~ Teresa Toten,
568:The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~ Dean Acheson,
569:The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be different would be you. ~ J D Salinger,
570:The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot. ~ Guy Ritchie,
571:The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think,” said Virginia Woolf in the midst of the First World War, ~ Rebecca Solnit,
572:As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing. ~ James McAvoy,
573:I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together. ~ Robert Harris,
574:Sometimes giving means opening up and letting other know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you. ~ Marilyn Grey,
575:Sometimes the best thing in life is finding that one person who knows all your mistakes and weaknesses and still thinks you’re completely amazing. ~ Jill Shalvis,
576:The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if you read the last one first.” He ~ Amy Harmon,
577:The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor ~ Henry David Thoreau,
578:The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding. ~ Kelly Wearstler,
579:The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. ~ Warren Buffett,
580:When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation. ~ Bill Gates,
581:And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
582:But there will be no story about this moment, no photographs.
No one except the two of them will ever know.
It is the best thing she can do. ~ Todd Strasser,
583:I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About. ~ J D Salinger,
584:Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
585:Sometimes giving means opening up and letting others know you. Sometimes the best thing you can give someone is yourself. The real you. All of you. ~ Marilyn Grey,
586:The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash. ~ George Carlin,
587:The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
588:When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one. ~ Jennifer Coolidge,
589:When you were kids, you can tell when an adult is bad or good; and I think people can feel that I'm genuine. It's the best thing in the world. ~ Jason David Frank,
590:being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them,but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself ~ Anonymous,
591:... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too? ~ Jandy Nelson,
592:We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us if it’s the worst thing for someone else. ~ Glen Duncan,
593:When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short. ~ Benjamin Jealous,
594:Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible. ~ Jaime Winstone,
595:Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
596:Getting fired,” Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
597:If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do. ~ Eric Balfour,
598:I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us. ~ Katie Klein,
599:The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? ~ Padma Lakshmi,
600:The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,
601:Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ~ Bertrand Russell,
602:If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself, you will not remember yourself. ~ P D Ouspensky,
603:I love you, Katherine James. I love you with everything I am. You're the best thing that has ever happened to me. Remember that."

Gabe Rossiter ~ Pamela Clare,
604:In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
605:It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy. ~ Mike Hulme,
606:The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible. ~ Alistair Cooke,
607:The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were. ~ Joseph J Romm,
608:The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way. ~ Jane Jacobs,
609:Yeah. It’s the best thing ever, to know you’ve found the one you were meant to be with and that she loves you as much as you love her. It’s everything. ~ Marie Force,
610:"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives." ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
611:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked.
I shook my head.
'They can only break once. The rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
612:I don’t know whether these feelings—this thing growing inside of me—is something horrible and sick or the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Either ~ Lauren Oliver,
613:On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun. ~ Lester Piggott,
614:The best thing about being young is being stupid. Or rather, the best thing about being young is being too stupid to know how stupid you really are. ~ Douglas Coupland,
615:When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
616:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?” the librarian asked. I shook my head. “They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
617:If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run. In ~ Lauren Oliver,
618:The best thing I ever did in life was nothing, and I got a medal for it. I was a hero once. And if you look at my picture, that’s all I’ll ever be. Minutes ~ Hugh Howey,
619:What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty. ~ Nick Harkaway,
620:When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Kaitlyn,
621:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Bob Proctor,
622:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst you can do is nothing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
623:The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
624:You are the best thing to happen to me, bar none. You, Abbey...all of this. You both walked into my life and...I never knew what I wanted until you did. ~ Jessica Topper,
625:Actually the best thing I did was to get thrown out by my wife. She's living with a fitness instructor. He drinks that yellow stuff in tins. He's an idiot. ~ Steve Coogan,
626:I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
627:I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar,
628:If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die? ~ Ricky Gervais,
629:If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it. ~ Deborah Davis,
630:Just speak your mind honestly. That's the best thing. It may hurt a little sometimes, and someone may get upset, but in the long run, it's for the best. ~ Haruki Murakami,
631:My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage ~ A S Byatt,
632:So, another thing I had in common with Kathy - ripe mangoes were, truly, the best thing ever. Ripe mangoes, the dark yellow ones, would be my true love. ~ Mina V Esguerra,
633:The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion. ~ Jarvis Cocker,
634:When a stupid government is elected in a democratic country, the best thing about this is that you learn the number of stupid people in that country! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
635:You’re the best thing that ever happened to me,” she says.
“It sounds like you’ve lived an incredibly sheltered life,” I say, gripping her hand firmly. ~ Sarah Noffke,
636:Apparently it was, like, ohmigod, like, the best thing ever to have a guy she could talk to without complicating things with romantic entanglements. Please. ~ Lauren Layne,
637:If we really want our students to become wild readers, independent of our support and oversight, sometimes the best thing we can do is get out of the way. ~ Donalyn Miller,
638:It is only in quietness and peace that one can know what is the best thing to do.
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Elements of Yoga, Peace and Silence, Quiet, [T5],
639:I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,
640:My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage. ~ A S Byatt,
641:People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much. ~ Gregory David Roberts,
642:Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift." George Amberson/Jake Epping in Stephen King's 11/22/63 ~ Stephen King,
643:Tears filled his eyes. What the fuck just happened.
Because it felt a lot like he just let the best thing that ever happened to him walk out of his life. ~ Scarlett Cole,
644:The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are. ~ George Harrison,
645:He says, “But if you’re someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren’t you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too? ~ Jandy Nelson,
646:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Anthony Robbins,
647:I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively. ~ Curtis Jackson,
648:I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater. ~ Omar Sharif,
649:I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music. ~ John Lennon,
650:Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ~ James A Garfield,
651:The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things. ~ Benjamin Stone,
652:You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible. ~ Siobhan Vivian,
653:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?" the librarian asked.
I shook my head.
"They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
654:Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked.
I shook my head.
'They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
655:I knew how much she could come to mean to me if I let her. I’ll never regret letting her in because this, right here… She’s the best thing to ever happen to me. ~ Marie Force,
656:In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye. ~ Tyler Blackburn,
657:It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority. ~ Stephanie Mills,
658:Know what the best thing about morning sex is?" Caesar snorted and pinched Nate's hip.
"Sex?"
"No," Nate laughed, "nobody has to sleep on the wet spot. ~ James Buchanan,
659:Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind. ~ Alison Pill,
660:The best thing to do is just know that there's a big difference between style and fashion, and that one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other. ~ Kelly Cutrone,
661:What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
662:Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. ~ Steve Carell,
663:Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better ~ Oprah Winfrey,
664:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt,
665:I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind. ~ Etta James,
666:I think once an author is attacking people for leaving Amazon reviews, common sense has shut up shop and gone home, and the best thing to do is not engage at all. ~ K J Charles,
667:I think this was a bad idea,’ he repeated. ‘I think the best thing to do would be to forget all about this and just go back home. We can chalk it up to experience, ~ John Boyne,
668:I was so right,” Janet said. “Killing in the nude is the best thing ever.” “You think it’s definitely one of your personal core values?” “Oh, yes. It’s totally PCV. ~ Anonymous,
669:More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that. ~ Les Claypool,
670:My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
671:Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. ~ Stanley Kubrick,
672:We expect aliens to contact with us! If they do contact, what will be the best thing we can offer to them? Of course our human values, what else can it be! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
673:We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe. ~ Anita Moorjani,
674:All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning. ~ George Galloway,
675:College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking. ~ David Sedaris,
676:Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ever do. ~ Kristen Ashley,
677:I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write. ~ Erica Jong,
678:Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort. ~ Brent Spiner,
679:The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks. ~ Paul Theroux,
680:The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. ~ Julian Assange,
681:College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking.. ~ David Sedaris,
682:Ettie knew the best thing to do would be to put some distance between her and Daire. Being so close to him was making her feel… all sorts of wanton, lustful things. ~ Donna Grant,
683:The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side ~ John Elway,
684:Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.) ~ Meher Baba,
685:it was difficult to think what to do, and, as she often did in such circumstances, Mma Ramotswe decided that the best thing to do would be to go shopping. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
686:The best thing about being a writer, is being able to make up my own world and when I don't like that world, I can leave it and create another, or just change it. ~ Felicia Rogers,
687:The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now. ~ Richard Bandler,
688:There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton,
689:You were the best thing in my life … I did love you. I do. As much as I’ve ever loved anyone, as much as I can. It feels like a lot – it takes up my whole heart. ~ Patricia Gaffney,
690:Actually, that is the best thing that can happen in your life: you look death in the eye but survive. It changed my whole approach, my whole outlook on life at the time. ~ Anonymous,
691:He's the best thing that could have happened to us, I said. And that was no lie. It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
692:He’s the best thing that could have happened to us, I said. And that was no lie. It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
693:I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations. ~ Vin Diesel,
694:It’s crazy…” she whispered against his mouth, “what you do to me.” “Tell me,” he said. “Tell me what I do to you.” “You look at me like I’m the best thing you’ve seen ~ Jill Shalvis,
695:Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. ~ Lauren Oliver,
696:When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingring and consumptive passion. —Sir George Etherege ~ M C Beaton,
697:Control is an illusion. You think you’re in charge and then—whoosh—life happens when you’re not looking and you realize the best thing you can do is just roll with it. ~ Sarah Morgan,
698:-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?”
-“If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg White?”
-“Okay, the second-best thing. ~ Robin Benway,
699:He always said that when you had something difficult to tell someone, the best thing to do was to start with the hardest thing you could imagine telling that person. ~ Ingrid Seymour,
700:Sometimes, nothing is the best thing to chase," said Jelem.

"Drothe's 'nothings' usually carry swords," said Degan, "and come with several well-armed friends. ~ Douglas Hulick,
701:I didn't want to be popular because it was easier; I wanted to be popular because in high school that's the best thing you can be: perfect. Everything else is shit. ~ Courtney Summers,
702:The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing. ~ Don Cheadle,
703:For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think. ~ Pope Francis,
704:One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner. ~ Joel McHale,
705:People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure. ~ Asher Roth,
706:You don't believe in unconditional love. Neither does Alex. So you both threw away the best thing you ever had because you didn't believe in each other or yourselves. ~ Jennifer Crusie,
707:I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work--it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better. ~ Patricia Hampl,
708:My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray. ~ Ronnie Dunn,
709:The best thing about getting olde– (ahem) more mature is that you’ve had a chance to see if all the God stuff folks have been saying to you over the years is actually true. ~ Bill Myers,
710:I find hair things really hard because I can't do my own hair. The only thing I use for my hair is a Tangle Teezer. It's the best thing ever for everyone that has long hair. ~ Lara Stone,
711:I lean over to Paco and ask, “Seriously, what do you think of Alex and me together?”
“Seriously, you’re pro’bly the best thing that’s ever happened to the guy. ~ Simone Elkeles,
712:I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing. ~ Avery Johnson,
713:I think the best thing, if you can't get an air-tight deal with every "I" dotted and every "t" crossed is let the next president have a chance to deal with the Iranians. ~ Lindsey Graham,
714:Miss Treason! Remember you have an appointment!"
It wasn’t the best thing to say, but a lot better than: "You said you were going to die in about five minutes’ time! ~ Terry Pratchett,
715:There is no such thing as a perfect husband. Or a perfect wife. Or a perfect marriage. Sometimes love supersedes logic, and the best thing to do is just follow your heart. ~ Tracy Brogan,
716:If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them. ~ Bill Gates,
717:The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst. ~ Peter Kreeft,
718:Autumn said to me, "You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don't prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It's harder, but it's impossible ~ Siobhan Vivian,
719:But Miss Celia the way she stares at me with those big eyes like I’m the best thing since hairspray in a can, I almost rather she’d order me around like she supposed to. ~ Kathryn Stockett,
720:I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing. ~ Andrew Davies,
721:I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets. ~ Bob Casey Jr,
722:Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy. ~ Anne Hathaway,
723:The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water. ~ Novalis,
724:The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level. ~ Mark McMorris,
725:I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it. ~ Amy Grant,
726:People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. ~ David Levithan,
727:To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself.” If ~ John C Maxwell,
728:When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says. ~ Christine Caine,
729:Hey,” he said, “you won’t ever meet a man who likes women better than me. They’re the best thing on the planet. And I don’t just mean horizontal. Women hold the world together. ~ Scott Turow,
730:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” —THEODORE ROOSEVELT ~ Brett McKay,
731:In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. ~ Fred Rogers,
732:The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one. ~ Robert Frost,
733:Trying to cool his jets, trying to let her stay in charge, he attempted to hold back, but she let out this breathy little whimper like he was the best thing she’d ever tasted. ~ Jill Shalvis,
734:Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you. ~ Janet Mock,
735:Ferguson closed his eyes, paused for a long moment, and then turned to her and said: The best thing about being fifteen is that you don't have to be fifteen for more than a year. ~ Paul Auster,
736:I hope she'll be a fool, that's the best thing a girl in this world can be. A beautiful little fool. All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
737:I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) ~ John Eldredge,
738:Rest is the best thing for your body rather than working out or dieting. Sleep can change your whole metabolism, so it's my number one priority when it comes to looking good. ~ Erin Heatherton,
739:Sometimes I look at him and feel such an overwhelming appreciation for him, I almost want to write thank-you notes to our exes. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Colleen Hoover,
740:The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio,
741:The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
742:Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over. ~ Walter Moers,
743:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT ~ Anthony Robbins,
744:Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm. ~ Frederick Lenz,
745:The best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself. ~ Joe Hart,
746:The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb. ~ Jean de la Bruyere,
747:We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time. ~ Kate Bush,
748:Being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But Maybe the best thing that we do, and the best thing that we are, come from madness. ~ David Almond,
749:Perhaps the best thing for the princess would have been to fall in love. But how a princess who had no gravity could fall into anything is a difficulty–perhaps the difficulty. ~ George MacDonald,
750:The bath wasn’t the best thing. Lying with him spooned up against her, listening to the rain rattle against the glass and his voice like a rolling wave…that was the best thing. ~ Charlotte Stein,
751:The best thing about recess is that it doesn't matter if you are having trouble paying attention in class--suddenly, you are paying attention to a million things on the playground. ~ Lenore Look,
752:Because, you've already given me what I want most. You're afraid of me and you're falling in love with me. You're the best thing I've ever seen in my life. How could I let that go ~ Stylo Fantome,
753:Marc: “Do you know the best thing about startups?” Ben: “What?” Marc: “You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both. ~ Ben Horowitz,
754:One thing about faith was accepting that you couldn’t see the big picture. However, the one thing he was sure of was that God had a plan and whatever it was, it was the best thing ~ Lynette Eason,
755:The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected. ~ Beyonce Knowles,
756:The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath. ~ Giorgio Vasari,
757:If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone. ~ Rush Limbaugh,
758:I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack of migrating deer. Look how relaxed she is. Better than a spa day. ~ Kim Harrison,
759:I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids. ~ Les Wexner,
760:Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
761:Nature kills for no reason every day. If you want to make people safe, the best thing to do is to ban nature, to arrest nature and put it in jail where it can’t bother us anymore. ~ Tom McAllister,
762:Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? ~ Hermann Goring,
763:As Edward Glaeser put it, ‘Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers. ~ Matt Ridley,
764:In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
765:I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity. ~ Chet Baker,
766:My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much. ~ Yoko Ono,
767:Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done. ~ Michael Moore,
768:You’re so good to me.” She wrapped her arms around him. “Sliding off the highway was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” “You didn’t know it, angel, but you were coming home. ~ Pamela Clare,
769:Each time she told me, 'Hon, leaving you with Addie was the best thing I could have done for you. You need constants in your life.' She had a different hair color each time she said it. ~ Joan Bauer,
770:Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. ~ Al Franken,
771:I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? ~ Jackie Kennedy,
772:The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself. ~ John Denver,
773:Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog. ~ Sylvester Stallone,
774:I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward. ~ Benjamin Jealous,
775:Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak. ~ Kevin Kelly,
776:The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time. ~ Steve McQueen,
777:It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them. ~ Rush Limbaugh,
778:The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it. ~ Janis Ian,
779:Fisher twined his fingers with mine and when he did, the feeling was the best thing in the world, like it was always better to be this tangled up, to always have a piece of each other. ~ Brenna Yovanoff,
780:If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened. ~ Jodi Picoult,
781:I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous. ~ Kai Cheng Thom,
782:What’s the best thing that happened to you in the past ten years?” I ask. “Seeing you again.” Smiling, I push back against his chest. “Besides that.” “Meeting you the first time. ~ Christina Baker Kline,
783:If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That ~ Carol S Dweck,
784:Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really. ~ Andy Summers,
785:When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist. ~ Rokia Traore,
786:That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that–well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
787:The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live. ~ Paul Newman,
788:You can't win. The annoying thing is that you can't attack them, but you can't defend yourself. The best thing you could possibly do is punch a paparazzi and give them their big payday. ~ Robert Pattinson,
789:Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it. ~ Ice Cube,
790:Establishing the rapport was the best thing that could have happened in the compartment. My being an American Muslim changed the attitudes from merely watching me to wanting to look out for me. ~ Anonymous,
791:If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice. ~ Arthur Mitchell,
792:I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half. ~ Demetri Martin,
793:The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money. ~ Donnell Rawlings,
794:The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most. ~ Phil Jackson,
795:The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger, make a 'character' of yourself. It was tiring, sometimes, when you hadn't the energy for it; that's all. ~ Sarah Waters,
796:The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
797:When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. ~ Carla Bley,
798:I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason. ~ Marci Shimoff,
799:I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see. ~ Jennifer Niven,
800:This is the best thing I've ever eaten." He pauses for a drink, staring at me over the rim of his glass of juice.
" It's the provolone," I say, swallowing my last bite.
"It's the chef. ~ Sophie Jordan,
801:When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned! ~ Ivy Compton Burnett,
802:When the Holy Spirit comes, He will reveal things to you. Has He revealed them yet? He is going to do it. Just expect Him to do so. The best thing for you is to expect Him to do it now. ~ Smith Wigglesworth,
803:I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. ~ Bob Lilly,
804:Got smashed up in a brawl,” she mumbled. She paused, wiping her eyes with her hands and blowing her nose on the back of her sleeve. “Was the best thing that happened to me. He was mean.” Mean. ~ Bella Forrest,
805:The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends. ~ Craig M Mullaney,
806:Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself. ~ Rashida Jones,
807:When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
808:When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
809:When lies are swarming and attacking me like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, the best thing I can do is open God’s Word and immerse myself in His truth. Lies flee in the presence of truth. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
810:Guilt slashed through me as I imagined her growing up without a mother. Regardless of how deeply it gutted me, I knew with my whole heart that it was the best thing that had ever happened to her. ~ Aly Martinez,
811:I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills. ~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson,
812:My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean. ~ Karl Lagerfeld,
813:The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears. ~ Karl Popper,
814:The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears. ~ Josh Kaufman,
815:There one is safe. In a museum or in a lap or in a tree. Perhaps under the bedclothes. But the best thing of all is to sit high up in a tree, that is if one isn't still inside one's Mummy's tummy. ~ Tove Jansson,
816:What’s the best thing that happened to you in the past ten years?” I ask.
“Seeing you again.”
Smiling, I push back against his chest. “Besides that.”
“Meeting you the first time. ~ Christina Baker Kline,
817:You belong with us. You’re the best thing that ever happened to this family.”
Surprise filters through me. Okay. Wow.
“You’re ours,” Easton mumbles. “I’m sorry about tonight. I really am, Ella. ~ Erin Watt,
818:Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm. ~ Russell Howard,
819:But the best thing about Spain? Siestas. God bless any country that has decided yes, we shall shut down business and take a long nap in the middle of the day. How can you not love them for that? ~ Kristen Callihan,
820:It seemed that just when I was getting a handle on things, my fucking temper would rear its ugly head. I had to get it under control, or I was going to lose the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Jamie McGuire,
821:I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else. ~ Helen Mirren,
822:One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers. ~ Diane Lane,
823:The best thing about being Catholic is that you're a part of something bigger than yourself and you're a part of the community that's been there for 2000 years and it'll be there till the end of time. ~ Lino Rulli,
824:Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work. ~ Steven Yeun,
825:All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ Walt Disney,
826:If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term. ~ Mosab Hassan Yousef,
827:That's the thing about the Internet: It doesn't simply help us find the best thing out there; it has helped to produce the idea that there is a best thing and, if we search hard enough, we can find it. ~ Aziz Ansari,
828:The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal,
829:You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction, but cooking for the people whom you wake up with and go to sleep with is the best thing ever ~ Kim Severson,
830:Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally. ~ Bobby McFerrin,
831:That's the thing about the internet: it doesn't simply help us find the best thing out there; it has helped to produce the idea that there is a best thing, and, if we search hard enough, we can find it. ~ Aziz Ansari,
832:This is the best thing about men’s friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living. ~ Anonymous,
833:When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to. ~ Tom Cruise,
834:[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God. ~ Lyman Beecher,
835:I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
836:I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. ~ LeSean McCoy,
837:There was such fear in the world. But love was everywhere if you looked. It was the best thing about humans. That they could stare into the abyss and still open up their hearts. A spit in the eye to fear. ~ Libba Bray,
838:You don't die. You just... get really angry and then after you're angry you hurt a lot and then the best thing is that one day you remember something she said or did and you laugh instead of crying. ~ Melina Marchetta,
839:You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. ~ Ellen Hopkins,
840:An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works. ~ Marilu Henner,
841:He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation. ~ Lilith Saintcrow,
842:I love ye, Nerissa O’ Devir,” he murmured softly. “Ye’re the best thing that’s ever come into me life. ’Til the day I die, I’ll be thankin’ the good Lord and every saint in heaven for sendin’ ye to me. ~ Danelle Harmon,
843:In my mind that's the best thing I can do for my girl, is to love my body and the way I look. That's what I sort of decided when she was young. And so it's sort of about faking it until you can make it. ~ Lauren Bowles,
844:I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life. ~ Jeff Buckley,
845:My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind. ~ Stephen King,
846:The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience. ~ George W Bush,
847:The best thing is to let Christianity gradually fade out,” he said in October of that year. “A long phase-out has something conciliatory. The dogma of Christianity will collapse in the face of science. ~ Volker Ullrich,
848:The best thing, though, is when the falls land . . . the impact travels all the way from his body to mine, through the leather, then the handle, through my arm and to my heart. We’re so . . . together. At ~ Alexis Hall,
849:I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I ‘should’ want. Sometimes there is no ‘should,’ there’s only a single chance to grab on to happiness. ~ Nalini Singh,
850:I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony. ~ Lara Stone,
851:It is a pretend question, one he asked so he could give the answer. I relax. This is like when my father complains about his boss. The best thing to do is to stay awake and blink sympathetically. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,
852:Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul ~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya,
853:The best thing to ever come out of your mouth was my cock. Now get the fuck out.” “You’re an asshole!” “If I wanted a comeback, I’d ask you to spit.” She stomped her way toward the door, like I gave a fuck. ~ M Robinson,
854:If you haven’t found your calling yet, the best thing to do is get your butt off your chair, fill your life with a wide array of unusual experiences, and allow yourself to bump into what will exhilarate you. ~ Kate White,
855:I hurt too. For six years I fought every day not to think of you, and I lost, because every day you were all I could see. You were the best thing in my life—so sweet and innocent, and so goddamn tempting. ~ Kate McCarthy,
856:Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul. ~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya,
857:The best thing I ever did was figure out how to hide a pistol in my brassiere. The second best thing I ever did was let Thomas figure out how to find it, but that’s a story for another day.” —Alice Healy ~ Seanan McGuire,
858:The train you have been waiting all your life may not stop at your station; the best thing to survive such an emotional disaster is to give a chance to the next train which will stop at your station! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
859:And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own. ~ Jessica Valenti,
860:I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising, is they should start letting people pay who want to pay and avoid some of the advertising. ~ Tim Wu,
861:she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn’t hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the best thing ever, or even notice when you were home: a little part of you sealed over. ~ Jojo Moyes,
862:Thank you for continuing this journey with me, Perky. There is no way I was ready to let you go. I don’t know what this is, but it’s the best thing I have in my life right now, and I don’t want to lose it. ~ Penelope Ward,
863:This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living. ~ William Landay,
864:This is the best thing about men’s friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living. ~ William Landay,
865:To destroy the need to learn, this is the best thing to do: to gone feeling that you already know. Then there's no question of learning, no need to become a disciple. You are satisfied, in your grave. You are dead. ~ Osho,
866:What is the best thing that happens if we refuse to abide by the dictates of political correctness? I believe that we could return to a nation that truly cherishes freedom of speech and freedom of expression. ~ Ben Carson,
867:I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options. ~ Ashton Kutcher,
868:I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ~ William Goldman,
869:{My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said. ~ Maureen Dowd,
870:Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion. ~ Chris Evert,
871:The best thing about a beautiful morning is that if we don't have the strength or determination to solve our problems that morning, then we get that power and determination from that beautiful morning! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
872:The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
873:The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. ~ George MacDonald,
874:When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism ~ Bill Bryson,
875:You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up. ~ DMX,
876:All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ Walt Disney Company,
877:Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on. ~ Brad Pitt,
878:The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole. ~ Sania Mirza,
879:The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come. ~ Daniel Dennett,
880:If you're frightened of leprechauns, the best thing to do is to get yourself a little leprechaun outfit and see how big they are. And then you'll go, 'Well I see. That's like bein' frightened of a hampster.' ~ Craig Ferguson,
881:The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable. ~ Terri Clark,
882:When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn. ~ Wendell Berry,
883:I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. ~ Woodrow Wilson,
884:The best thing about improv is that no matter how bad your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again. The worst thing is no matter how good your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again. ~ Mick Napier,
885:He’d been up early all his life and though everybody said the best thing about retirement was sleeping in, he just couldn’t feature it. If he found himself in bed later than six he felt like a degenerate, ~ T Coraghessan Boyle,
886:The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing. ~ Charles Bukowski,
887:The best thing to do is muddle through and maybe, over time, create a solution of that, if someone really wanted to exit, the legal basis on which you could exit. Because right now there almost doesn't exist one. ~ Jamie Dimon,
888:The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do is run. ~ Lauren Oliver,
889:There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens. ~ David Levithan,
890:And one day I hope you get to love someone like I love you. If you do, and I know you will, you make sure you never let that go. It'll be scary, but it'll be the best thing that's ever happened to you if you let it. ~ T J Klune,
891:It was the best thing he could have done, far more soothing than the most eloquent words, for Jo felt the unspoken sympathy, and in the silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow. ~ Louisa May Alcott,
892:People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were. ~ Frederick Lenz,
893:If you know anyone struggling with his or her sexuality, the best thing you can do is be there for them, respect the process and treat them the same as you always would. It helps so much to know you're not alone. ~ Connor Franta,
894:Love is the root of so much suffering and misery, so much loss. It’s the worst thing in the world, to risk yourself by loving someone. At the same time, it’s the best thing in the world—and worth the risk. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,
895:Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive. ~ Michael Sheen,
896:That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that. ~ Topher Grace,
897:Being in war together may be what keeps us from being at war with each other. Rather than neglecting the battle to work on your marriage, maybe the best thing for your marriage is to enter the battlefield together. ~ Francis Chan,
898:Curtains are funny?'
'In comparison to all my other thoughts, yes, curtains can be amusing. But you, sir, are the best thing that's happened to me all day, all week, and, now that I think about it, all season. ~ Maria V Snyder,
899:Don't put so much pressure on yourself. Be happy with who you are and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself. You've got a long time to figure everything out and there's no rush. Enjoy the now. ~ Ellen Wong,
900:I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever. ~ Vanessa Hudgens,
901:I knew how good love could be -- I knew it was the best thing I'd ever done in my life -- and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn't. ~ James Patterson,
902:I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store. ~ Kevin Hart,
903:There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. The best thing to do is to treat all your days well.
Then see what happens. ~ David Levithan,
904:Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved ~ Milan Kundera,
905:The best thing we have learned from nearly five hundred years of contact with the American wilderness is restraint, the willingness to hold our hand: to visit such places for our souls’ good, but leave no tracks. ~ Wallace Stegner,
906:The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going to happen and everything's going to happen. It's just the gaze. You create your own zone. ~ Marina Abramovic,
907:Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer. ~ Prince Harry,
908:I pity you. All your life you are going to be paralyzed by What Is Done, by what people tell you you should think or do... The best thing that could happen to you would be for you to be uncomfortable once in a while. ~ Lucia Berlin,
909:The best thing you can do is find someone who loves you when you’re pretty, when you’re ugly, when you’re mad, when you’re happy. Someone who, no matter what, is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. ~ Lauren Myracle,
910:You're a gift, one I'll always treasure. You're a dream I never want to wake up from. You open my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. Be safe. Be smart. Stay you. ~ Ellen Hopkins,
911:Getting stuck can be the best thing that could happen to us, because it forces us to stop. It halts the momentum of our lives. We have no choice but to notice what is around us, and we end up searching for Jesus. ~ Michael Yaconelli,
912:None of these start-ups understand the objective. The objective should be—what delivers fundamental value. I think it’s important to look at things from a standpoint of what is actually the best thing for the economy. ~ Ashlee Vance,
913:That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. ~ David Hume,
914:I’ve never been more serious, Alayna. You’re the first person I’ve ever met who makes me believe I might not be crazy. It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me. ~ Laurelin Paige,
915:Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal. ~ Lou Doillon,
916:She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'Alright,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool -that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
917:The best thing about having had all that done, aside from getting a new mouth, was that he’d gotten to see a little bit of Basel, going out for the treatments. Otherwise, he’d stayed in the clinic, per his agreement. ~ William Gibson,
918:Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway. ~ Karla Cheatham Mosley,
919:After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
920:I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do. ~ Daryl Hannah,
921:I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career. ~ Lou Piniella,
922:Tengo had no idea, of course, what Aomame had offered to the mood that time, but he could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the moon could give a person. ~ Haruki Murakami,
923:Don't take anything personally. You're going to come up against a lot and the best thing is to ignore it and don't let the bastards get you down and keep moving forward because you are going to be treated differently. ~ Leslye Headland,
924:She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
925:The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist. ~ Kendrick Lamar,
926:I argued that you don’t know if your actions are futile; that you don’t have the memory of the future; that the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
927:If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
928:If you ask yourself 'What's the best thing that happened today?' It actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn't otherwise think about. ~ Austin Kleon,
929:My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me. ~ Vijay Mallya,
930:I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling. ~ Hugh Jackman,
931:The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me. ~ Carolyn Jones,
932:The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself. ~ William H Macy,
933:Breakups are hard,” I say. “But they get a little bit easier every day, until one day you meet someone who makes you forget all about that other person, and you realize that breakup was the best thing that ever happened to you. ~ Meg Cabot,
934:It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is. ~ Bernie Ecclestone,
935:People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured. ~ Margaret Cho,
936:Suddenly there were all sorts of words crowding on Zane's tongue, and he couldn't get a single one out, much less three that would prove he knew the best thing to happen to him in his entire life lay right there in his arms. ~ Abigail Roux,
937:I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. My life started the moment I breathed into you, and I can’t think of a better use for my breath than to use it to say, ‘I love you, for the rest of our lives. ~ Rebecca Yarros,
938:The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. ~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
939:The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally. ~ Jonah Hill,
940:When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit. ~ Simon Sinek,
941:I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them ~ Matt Chandler,
942:The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with. ~ Simon Sinek,
943:The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you’re too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He’s in charge anyway. And in Him, you’re in His peace. ~ Matt Chandler,
944:You're the best thing that ever happened to me. You're it for me. You always have been, and I refuse to let you walk out if my life again. I need you too much. Even after all this time, I'm so fucking in love with you it kills me ~ R J Lewis,
945:Failure is the only damn way we learn. Have you failed? Yes. Will you fail more? All the time. And that’s the best thing that can ever happen to you. When you stop failing, you stop learning. And then you’re of no use to anyone. ~ Katie Cross,
946:If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his mind went to places he could not control, places that made him feel uncomfortable. Exhaustion was the best thing. ~ Neil Gaiman,
947:I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving. ~ John Shelby Spong,
948:Looking back, I feel bad for treating the girls the way that I have. I just hope that he knows that I'm a good person and I hope it doesn't get in the way of what could be, like, the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Courtney Robertson,
949:Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that. ~ Woody Harrelson,
950:If you can’t marry the man you love, then the next best thing is to marry one who is easily managed. . . . But the best thing of all, of course, is to marry a man beloved as well as manageable, as she herself intended to do. ~ Elizabeth Goudge,
951:I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up. ~ Kirsten Dunst,
952:You just came out of the hospital ten days ago,” Milo reminded him reprovingly. “You can’t keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don’t like. No, the best thing to do is fly the missions. It’s our duty. ~ Joseph Heller,
953:Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. ~ Eminem,
954:Sometimes when you love someone, the best thing you can do is keep them in the dark. Loving someone doesn’t always mean telling them everything. It means knowing when it’s best to keep your mouth shut and when it’s best to open it. ~ J S Cooper,
955:As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you're familiar with to your advantage. ~ Vince Vaughn,
956:Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn’t hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the best thing ever, or even notice when you were home: a little part of you sealed over. You didn’t need ~ Jojo Moyes,
957:In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. ~ Barack Obama,
958:I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle. ~ Channing Tatum,
959:So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it. ~ Woody Harrelson,
960:You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank ~ Ellen Hopkins,
961:I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past. ~ David Duchovny,
962:Aside from marrying my husband and having my children, hiking the PCT was the best thing I ever did. The hike very literally forced me to put one foot in front of the other at a time when emotionally I didn't think I could do that. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
963:Daddy could be rather difficult, at times, and he hadn’t yet found any young man who measured up to his exacting standards. The best thing, I’d found, was simply not to introduce them to him. It saved a lot of bother, all around. ~ Susanna Kearsley,
964:The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into. ~ Anne Lamott,
965:Because every day in my journal I write down the best thing that's happened to me. And today it's you." When
When Johanna said that, I felt light, warm in that spot just above my stomach where it usually feels clenched and tight. ~ Gary Paulsen,
966:I miss you. I miss your smile. I miss your hand in mine. I miss your laugh when you're nervous. I wish to god I was hearing it right now. That hurricane was the best thing that ever happened to me because it brought you into my life. ~ Jessica Clare,
967:I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time. ~ Justin Townes Earle,
968:Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad. ~ Alicia Keys,
969:But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do ~ Connie Chung,
970:Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want. ~ Janet Fitch,
971:I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing. ~ Charles Bukowski,
972:Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated. ~ Nick Hornby,
973:I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good. ~ Dan Savage,
974:The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people. ~ Daniel Radcliffe,
975:The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams." ~ Tom Hodgkinson,
976:The quiet square seemed busy with their ghosts, their stories, and it made me feel peaceful in some arcane way. Life had washed me here on this strange errand. Maybe the best thing to do was to just let it show me what it had in mind. ~ Barbara O Neal,
977:whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him. When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, and soon thereafter he began offering me his ideas for a series we were doing ~ Walter Isaacson,
978:When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? ~ Ann Voskamp,
979:But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions. ~ Mark Kennedy,
980:The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. ~ Hunter S Thompson,
981:The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless. ~ George Harrison,
982:Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. ~ Dolores Huerta,
983:It was not until Christians were a thousand years removed from Jesus that they believed holy war could purge sin, whereas Muhammad himself taught Muslims that fighting in jihad can forgive sin, and indeed is the best thing in the world. ~ Nabeel Qureshi,
984:Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. ~ Stephen King,
985:Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing. ~ David Byrne,
986:If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you’re masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and he'll kill you. The best thing is to suffer mutely and yearn for a rescuer, but suppose a rescuer doesn't come? ~ Joanna Russ,
987:The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say and felt you didn't belong anywhere, books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all. ~ Dean Koontz,
988:As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me. ~ Thomas A Edison,
989:The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith. ~ Jeffrey Kluger,
990:The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done-when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff-who else is involved, and what's happened before, and what the rules say. ~ Jodi Picoult,
991:Being with you is the best thing that's ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I've made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I'd go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you. ~ Richelle Mead,
992:Being with you is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I’ve made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I’d go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you. ~ Richelle Mead,
993:People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. ~ David Levithan,
994:The assumption – and I think it’s correct – is that the technology is going to happen anyway, so the best thing is to get it distributed as quickly as possible and see what people use it for, and keep an eye out for any problems that arise. ~ China Mi ville,
995:What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself. ~ J I Packer,
996:If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. ~ Carol S Dweck,
997:If you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
[…]
If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~ John Steinbeck,
998:The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth. ~ Oliver DeMille,
999:Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins. ~ Sammy Gravano,
1000:her over onto her back and, looking into her eyes, said, “Mel, you’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I’m going to make you so happy, you won’t be able to stand it. You’re going to wake up singing every morning.” “I already do, Jack.” * ~ Robyn Carr,
1001:The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you’d muted them, and they couldn’t do a damn thing about it. ~ Ernest Cline,
1002:She knew she needed to quit worrying, stop being so indecisive, and place the matter in God's hands. He knew what was best for her and the children. For now, the best thing she could do was pray and wait on Him to give her clear direction. ~ Wanda E Brunstetter,
1003:The best thing I ever bought will always be the next piece of musical equipment. I'm always interested in new techniques and there seems to be a never ending supply of great equipment to play, and to play with. My studio is a bit of a playroom. ~ Richard Norris,
1004:I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York. ~ James Patterson,
1005:There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his God nature, with the best thing in him; that which is not working in response to his highest aspiration. ~ Orison Swett Marden,
1006:A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future. ~ Darren Shan,
1007:I can tell you that I believe—that the human heart’s mysterious ability to love others is never wrong. Your heart will never ask your permission to love. It’s going to love whomever it was made to love, and the best thing you can do is follow it. ~ Kelly Quindlen,
1008:In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you'll create something magical that might be the best thing you've ever accomplished ~ Tori Amos,
1009:It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.' ~ Jimmy Fallon,
1010:...you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1011:I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do. ~ Gerald Seymour,
1012:if there are things that upset you, chaotic, terrible, serpentine monstrous underworld things that threaten you, the best thing to do is to open your eyes, get your speech organized, and go out and confront the thing, and make the world out of it ~ Jordan Peterson,
1013:I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie,
1014:Maybe the best thing to do with favorite films and books is to leave them be: to achieve such an exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be re-created. ~ Nick Hornby,
1015:The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. ~ Anthony Minghella,
1016:The very best things in life are born of difficulty. Whatever comes too easily is easily abandoned.

"The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if you read the last one first ~ Amy Harmon,
1017:I fucking love you more than words can describe. It isn't a feeling - it's like a storm that crashes into me and obliterates me. I can't stop it. I wasn't prepared for it. I just know that it's the best thing and the scariest thing to ever happen to me. ~ K Webster,
1018:The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens. ~ Pat Condell,
1019:if there are things that upset you, chaotic, terrible, serpentine monstrous underworld things that threaten you, the best thing to do is to open your eyes, get your speech organized, and go out and confront the thing, and make the world out of it ~ Jordan B Peterson,
1020:People mess up, you know? But you can’t see past it. It’s like you choose one thing about them—the worst thing—and say, ‘That’s who they are,’ and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most? ~ Sarah Skilton,
1021:Sometimes the best thing to hear is not “Don’t worry, it’s going to be okay” but actually “Tell me about it! The whole world is going to explode and I haven’t slept for weeks. Now let me tell you about my specific fears of small boats and big business! ~ Amy Poehler,
1022:That was the best thing about this club and something I'd always craved growing up. You might fuck up, but the brothers wouldn't ever act like you weren't welcome. They'd punish you, but then it would be over, forgotten. You'd be back in the fold. ~ Nicole Jacquelyn,
1023:Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them. ~ Allison Pearson,
1024:I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness. ~ Banana Yoshimoto,
1025:The best thing you can do to come up with a lot of new ideas is to learn a lot of old ideas. Because new ideas are just connections between old ideas, the more ideas you have in your head, the more connections you’ll be able to create between them. ~ Yevgeniy Brikman,
1026:Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a college education, we're qualified for nothing, and we're used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star. ~ Cindy Crawford,
1027:The best thing is that if you get a lot of mistakes over and done with early on in your life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way ~ Richard Templar,
1028:They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn't know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman wanted to have one, the best thing you could do was get it over with. ~ Chelsea Cain,
1029:I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant... I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - working for the common people out there and being a servant, a public servant, and I have seen this. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger,
1030:It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. 'You know,' I said, 'I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that -'
'Isn't that interesting,' he said coolly. 'I'm really not attracted to you, either.'
'But -'
'You were there. ~ Donna Tartt,
1031:Our life is our prayer. It is our gift to the universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. The best thing we can do for ourselves and everyone around us is to find our joy and share it! ~ Anita Moorjani,
1032:But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it.

...it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
1033:If you ask me, the best thing that's happened in the last year is that we've almost become a jackass-free zone. No matter what happens, and what challenge we might face, give me a roomful of people who aren't jackasses, and I'll be happy to take it on. ~ Patrick Lencioni,
1034:For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love. ~ Patti Smith,
1035:If the future looks dark, all you have to do is to find a candle and carry it with you! If it looks bright, the best thing to do is still to carry that candle, because the future can always create a different story! Always carry a candle by your side! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1036:I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche. ~ John Lydon,
1037:The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him. ~ Russell Baker,
1038:It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it. ~ Pete Docter,
1039:I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions. ~ E O Wilson,
1040:The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock 'n' roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they're not alone. ~ Patti Smith,
1041:There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped. ~ Gina Damico,
1042:Dedicate yourself above all else to becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. It is the best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your employees, your employer, your church, your nation, the human family, and yourself. ~ Matthew Kelly,
1043:I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything. ~ Julian Casablancas,
1044:Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it. ~ Bill Nye,
1045:Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind. ~ Ai Weiwei,
1046:I'm not trying to make this a downer, understand. I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in
the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ~ William Goldman,
1047:I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft. ~ Dwayne McDuffie,
1048:So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices. ~ Honor de Balzac,
1049:The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple. ~ Greg Gutfeld,
1050:Almost all of us have the hankering to be famous, to be important, to be admired, to stand out, but the assumption is you have to be different or better to get that. No. The best thing is to be famous, to be cuddled by the public, but to be like everyone else. ~ Tibor Fischer,
1051:Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary. ~ Mary Pipher,
1052:Do you need to do whatever you're told to be a nice person? Maybe. Do you need to do whatever you're told to be a good person? Of course not! Man, woman, personal, professional- some people have a skill for persuading you the best thing you can be is obedient. ~ Anna Kendrick,
1053:Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation. ~ Joan Jett,
1054:Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. ~ Henry Van Dyke,
1055:The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap. ~ Robert Duvall,
1056:There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs. ~ Luke Bryan,
1057:Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. Yogi Raman was the first person to explain to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it. ~ Robin S Sharma,
1058:The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1059:I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad. ~ Lauren Oliver,
1060:I'm not trying to make this a downer, understand. I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in
the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's
just fairer than death, that's all. ~ William Goldman,
1061:I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time. ~ Hunter Hayes,
1062:asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ Anonymous,
1063:Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. ~ Nick Cave,
1064:Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive. ~ Ruth Wilson,
1065:The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about. ~ Ice Cube,
1066:The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
1067:His hand moves from beside mine, and I feel a sudden absence. And then it's on my cheek, cupping my face, thumb stroking my lip. It feels like the worst thing I've ever done and the best thing I could ever do and how strange that the two are suddenly the same. ~ Alexandra Christo,
1068:You hold my heart and my soul. I promise to be with you, to be your friend and your lover. I’ll be your strength when you’re weak, your comfort when you’re sad. You are the best part of me, and the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I will love you, for always. ~ Tiffany Snow,
1069:Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. ~ Christian Bale,
1070:Of course you are. Emotions are totally irrational half the time." Her ice blue eyes lock onto me. "But you have full control over how you deal with them. Acknowledging that something is irrational and refraining from taking it out on someone is the best thing to do. ~ Kelley York,
1071:So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart. ~ Alice Walker,
1072:The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline. ~ Barry Goldwater,
1073:The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
1074:To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either “I’m all good” or “I’m worthless; I’m no good.” The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon ~ Eknath Easwaran,
1075:When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand. ~ Albert Brooks,
1076:Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence. ~ Erika Christensen,
1077:But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without destroying the other. Fantasizing spares those we care about from the full irresponsibility and scary strangeness of our urges. ~ Alain de Botton,
1078:The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
1079:Fe is, I could bang on about the desert and the altitude and the light and the silver and turquoise jewelry, but the best thing is just to mention a traffic sign on the freeway from Albuquerque. It says, in large letters, GUSTY WINDS, and in smaller letters MAY EXIST. ~ Douglas Adams,
1080:I've never found that getting physical is ever the best response in a bar. You just have to make sure you keep your distance, and if it gets to a point where it gets aggressive then the best thing to do is go get a bouncer and get the situation resolved intelligently. ~ Chuck Liddell,
1081:I want it so bad I can taste it. I’ve spent years wanting her, denying to myself and everyone else that I could have her if I tried. Because I didn’t want to lose the best thing in my life, I’ve never acted on it.
But I do want her. This. Us.
So fucking badly. ~ Nicole Edwards,
1082:What for?” “I’m not authorized to discuss the matter with anyone else. Are you related to her?” A pause. “I’m her sister. I’m from Minneapolis.” The best thing about lying are the flourishes, I thought. I myself am a world-class practitioner. “And your name is?” “Patty. ~ Sue Grafton,
1083:When you develop the habit of voluntarily putting yourself under stress, it becomes a source of joy and even comfort. You feel happy, satisfied and relaxed after the workout. The best thing is that you lose fear of physical stress because you have started enjoying it. ~ Awdhesh Singh,
1084:I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Walter Dean Myers,
1085:In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with. ~ Diablo Cody,
1086:Sometimes listening is the best thing you can do for someone. People don’t always need strength or advice. Sometimes they want to speak their heart out to someone who just hears and understands. They don’t need a reply. They just need a pair of eyes where they can see concern. ~ Praveer,
1087:The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1088:Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy. ~ Pema Ch dr n,
1089:In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with. ~ Diablo Cody,
1090:Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest. Which is to say: she cast about for ideas for exacting revenge -- egged windows, flaming bags of dog shit -- and chose the best thing in her limited repertoire. ~ Celeste Ng,
1091:Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something. ~ Kathleen Hanna,
1092:Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. ~ William James,
1093:I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now. ~ Beyonce Knowles,
1094:I have three younger siblings, and used to tell them an awful lot of lies when they were growing up. The best thing about being a writer is that now I can say that my lies were all in the name of literary creativity. Unfortunately, my brothers and sister don’t believe me. ~ Marie Rutkoski,
1095:I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong. ~ Albert Pujols,
1096:On the other hand, I can't not defend her, since I can't help feeling it is wrong to stand idly by when I hear justice coming under attack, and not come to her defence for as long as I have breath in my body and a tongue in my head. So the best thing is to make what defence I can. ~ Plato,
1097:You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all. ~ Mira Grant,
1098:The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing. ~ Jeffrey R Immelt,
1099:All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
1100:The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology." ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,
1101:All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one." "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
1102:As Gelbart told me about four months before he passed away, “William S. Paley said television was the best cigarette vending machine that anybody ever thought of, and that’s still pretty much what it is. I’d just like to see it grow up, and really be the best thing it can be.”7 ~ Ben Shapiro,
1103:The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ~ George Saunders,
1104:All the same,' said the Scarecrow,'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.'
'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman,'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
1105:Forever. My brother is not a bad person. The best thing for Marc now is leaving college, getting away from a bunch of people he was around every day. Now he'll have a chance to play in the NFL and have somebody who can be there with him and can guide him in the right direction. ~ Michael Vick,
1106:It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1107:When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks. p. 58 ~ Ann Voskamp,
1108:All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.'
I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
1109:All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."   "I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
1110:Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe,
1111:There were undoubtedly guests who agreed with me, but they hadn’t spoken up. To my mind, that was as good as condoning her behavior. While it was unlikely she’d change her opinion, I’d still fight the good fight. Sometimes, that was the best thing—and the only thing—you could do. ~ Chloe Neill,
1112:If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow. ~ Erin Davie,
1113:I make this really good tomato soup from scratch and I do it with grilled cheese sandwich dippers on the side. That's really, really, really good. And my grandma loves that. My grandma is the best cook ever so for her to love that makes me think it's probably the best thing I make. ~ Gigi Hadid,
1114:To know and believe in God is the best thing that can happen in your life because He can turn what appears to be the worst event into the best. He can transform your struggles into your learning. He can turn your suffering into strength. He can use your failures to bring success. ~ Nick Vujicic,
1115:Biology
The film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap is this going to be?

An hour later
That was the best thing I have seen for ages. We made Miss Wilson rewind the bit where the two queens were having a bitch fight. ~ Louise Rennison,
1116:I think I play tennis for, to against a big legend, big court, short time. That's what I train for. That's why every day I wake up and I wish I could play those matches, you know. It's like, for me it's the best thing can happen is to play against that guy on that stage, you know. ~ Gael Monfils,
1117:Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst. ~ Isocrates,
1118:Popper said many wise things, but I think the following remark is among the wisest: “The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears. ~ Josh Kaufman,
1119:Sometime around 1:30 in the morning, Martin learned the best thing about wizard parties, which is that because wizards can teleport, they can sleep in their own beds no matter how drunk they get or how far away the party was. Unfortunately, they still were susceptible to hangovers. ~ Scott Meyer,
1120:Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us. ~ Ben Bradlee,
1121:We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi,
1122:But she had the chance now to make things right, at least for her daughter. She may have done a lot of things wrong, but the decision to give up her child would be the one responsible, unselfish act of her life. It was the best thing she’d ever done. But it felt like the worst. ~ Mary Alice Monroe,
1123:If you can fix something that needs to be fixed, go ahead and fix it. But real leadership is most often needed where simple solutions have already been tried and have failed. When things are hard, sometimes the best thing you can do is to drown what’s wrong in a sea of what’s right. ~ Eric Greitens,
1124:In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. ~ Sun Tzu,
1125:The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life. ~ Carl Lewis,
1126:All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."

"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ~ L Frank Baum,
1127:In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It’s like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don’t want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever. ~ Jorge Bucay,
1128:Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step. ~ Christofer Drew,
1129:Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with. ~ Diablo Cody,
1130:The most hilarious thing about people holding up their right to free speech is how much it weakens everything else they've said. When the best thing someone can say about their argument is that it isn't technically illegal, that doesn't say much about the strength of their words, does it? ~ Anonymous,
1131:This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
1132:Everyone gets moody from time to time. What you need to keep in mind is that it is probably not about you, and there is no reason for you to get upset. The best thing you can do is to get out of the line of fire. You don’t want to get hit just because you are there and make an easy target. ~ I T Lucas,
1133:Here you play in the street, little chicken. Some day an automobile will run over you; and if it kills you, that will be the best thing that can happen. It may only break your leg or your wing. Then all of your life you will drag along in misery. Life is too hard for you, little bird. ~ John Steinbeck,
1134:That’s the thing about the Internet: It doesn’t simply help us find the best thing out there; it has helped to produce the idea that there is a best thing and, if we search hard enough, we can find it. And in turn there are a whole bunch of inferior things that we’d be foolish to choose. ~ Aziz Ansari,
1135:People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood. ~ Imelda May,
1136:Tjan writes, “There is one quality that trumps all, evident in virtually every great entrepreneur, manager, and leader. That quality is self-awareness. The best thing leaders can do to improve their effectiveness is to become more aware of what motivates them and their decision-making. ~ Ian Morgan Cron,
1137:Unfortunately Bel was unable to enjoy these days whole-heartedly. There was a cloud upon her spirits. She had agreed with Louise that the best thing to do was to forget all her troubles, but it is one thing to know what is the best thing to do and quite another thing to be able to do it. ~ D E Stevenson,
1138:We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
1139:But if you feel that the criticism is made out of sheer malice and that no amount of explanation will change a point of view which has nothing to do with the facts, then the best thing is to put it out of your mind entirely, as though it did not touch you or your loved ones in any way. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,
1140:I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying. ~ Paul Auster,
1141:Wasn't one of the goals of life to comfortable in your own skin and in your own bed and on your own land? But as soon as you achieved it, you felt an immense sadness, and then you wanted to wreck everything around you, just because you could. Comfort was the best thing, and maybe the worst. ~ Meg Wolitzer,
1142:Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny. ~ Betty Smith,
1143:And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest. ~ Henry Van Dyke,
1144:How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence. ~ Michael Lewis,
1145:This must be a good book,” he wrote in Working Days on June 10, 1938. “It simply must. I haven’t any choice. It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted—slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges. ~ John Steinbeck,
1146:We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. ~ Steve Jobs,
1147:The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
1148:An intense, peculiar exhalation of light and colour emanates from these fantasies of mine. I start with surprise as I note one good thing after another, and tell myself that this is the best thing I have ever read. My head swims with a sense of satisfaction; delight inflates me; I grow grandiose. ~ Knut Hamsun,
1149:It was Papa," Marian interrupted quietly, glancing up at her aunt. "He looked directly at me,not a foot away from me.It was Papa."
Kathleen sighed. "Well,I can't say I'm delighted to hear it.The best thing Mortimer ever did for you gals was to die. So he couldn't even do that right? ~ Johanna Lindsey,
1150:Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to capture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. ~ Sun Tzu,
1151:Van Helsing strode forward, and took his hand, looking him straight in the eyes as he said, "A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You're a man and no mistake. Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them. ~ Bram Stoker,
1152:Tink, you are the best thing that's ever happened to that kid. I don't care if he only has one day left with you or twenty, you just keep doing whatever you're doing until you have to go, and I will forever worship the ground you walk on. Because a little slice of heaven is better than none at all. ~ Linda Kage,
1153:Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest. Which was to say: she cast about for ideas for exacting revenge—egged windows, flaming bags of dog shit—and chose the best thing in her limited repertoire. Three afternoons later, Pearl ~ Celeste Ng,
1154:Give up all sorts of fears, worries, anxieties and cares. Do not be disheartened by failures and setbacks. Draw strength and courage from God dwelling in the chamber of your heart. Pain is the best thing in the world. It is an eye-opener. It awakens your dormant faculties. Never forget this. ~ Sivananda Saraswati,
1155:Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.' He shook his head. 'But some men think it's the best thing in the world. ~ Joe Abercrombie,
1156:Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it’s something different. You can’t drink it. You can’t fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you’ve got none at all you don’t miss it.’ He shook his head. ‘But some men think it’s the best thing in the world. ~ Joe Abercrombie,
1157:The best thing that we can do on climate change is make sure that China converts to a more nuclear future to limit those - that one coal-burning plant coming on a week that we expect - that would really help the planet. We need to work cooperatively with developing countries to make sure they emit less. ~ Mark Kirk,
1158:She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,
1159:The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of. ~ Lyndsy Fonseca,
1160:When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. ~ C S Lewis,
1161:Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding. ~ Nate Berkus,
1162:All those ninnies have it wrong. The best thing about Seattle is the weather. The world over, people have ocean views. But across our ocean is Bainbridge Island, an evergreen curb, and over it the exploding, craggy, snow-scraped Olympics. I guess what I'm saying: I miss it, the mountains and the water. ~ Maria Semple,
1163:My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way far in the process and when we arrive to the fabrication of the thing then we start to say, "Okay right, what is the best thing we can do." I choose the car before to choose the color. ~ Luc Besson,
1164:No one can understand what you've been through more than Kishan and Mr. Kadam. I think the best thing you can do to repay him is to give him that level of loyalty in return. He considers you and Kishan sons and the best way a son can honor his father is to be the kind of man that would make him proud. ~ Colleen Houck,
1165:If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
1166:I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I went to meetings and my son came with me. The best thing was that I could eat what I wanted and still lose weight. Slow and steady, I was getting my pre-pregnancy body back. ~ Jenny McCarthy,
1167:The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started. ~ Edward Abbey,
1168:When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best way to get people to do what's right collectively is to make it the best thing for them to do individually. You have to give individuals a personal incentive to do what's right for society. ~ Donald Shoup,
1169:For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again. ~ Rudy Rucker,
1170:"Half the people who murder someone are drunk. And half the people who are murdered are drunk. And you're most likely to be murdered by a family member. I've been joking with my audiences "well if you really want to get murdered the best thing to do is go drink with family!" Which is statistically true. ~ Jordan Peterson,
1171:His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani. ~ Lawrence O Donnell,
1172:In Marie’s opinion, the OASIS was the best thing that had ever happened to both women and people of color. From the very start, Marie had used a white male avatar to conduct all of her online business, because of the marked difference it made in how she was treated and the opportunities she was given. When ~ Ernest Cline,
1173:This is the best thing you’re ever going to learn in SEAL training.’ We were excited to learn what it was, and he told us that when you’re a leader, people are going to mimic your behavior, at a minimum. . . . It’s a guarantee. So here’s the key piece of advice, this is all he said: ‘Calm is contagious. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
1174:Holy shit.”
“Eleanor, behave.”
“You’re wearing a kilt.”
“I realise this.”
“You know I’m not capable of behaving under the best of circumstances. You are asking the impossible.
“Is this going to be a problem?”
“It is the opposite of a problem. It is the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Tiffany Reisz,
1175:I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ~ Steve Jobs,
1176:As Sondheim said, Nice is different than good. Do you need to do whatever you’re told to be a nice person? Maybe. Do you need to do whatever you’re told to be a good person? Of course not! Man, woman, personal, professional—some people have a skill for persuading you the best thing you can be is obedient. A ~ Anna Kendrick,
1177:Being a McKettrick meant claiming a piece of ground to stand on and putting your roots down deep into it. Holding on, no matter what came at you. It meant loving with passion and taking the rough spots with the smooth. It meant fighting for what you wanted, letting go when that was the best thing to do. ~ Linda Lael Miller,
1178:"Half the people who murder someone are drunk. And half the people who are murdered are drunk. And you're most likely to be murdered by a family member. I've been joking with my audiences "well if you really want to get murdered the best thing to do is go drink with family!" Which is statistically true. ~ Jordan B Peterson,
1179:The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that's the biggest mistake men make on the first date. Just get to know me. Be my friend. Just kick it with me as if I was hanging with a homeboy. It shouldn't be this awkward situation. It should be that we're there, having a great time. ~ Adrienne Bailon,
1180:There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's own process and own method, and that takes a kind of delicate, non-imposing patience and openness, I think, to get the very best out of the people you work with. ~ Todd Haynes,
1181:The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1182:If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening". ~ Milan Kundera,
1183:For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again. ~ Rudy Rucker,
1184:Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep. ~ Peter Singer,
1185:Tatum Elliot O'Shea, sometimes I think you are the stupidest goddamn person I have ever met. Sometimes I think you're crazy. Sometimes I think I hate you. Sometimes I think you're a psychotic bitch, sent from hell to drag me back. But always, ALWAYS, I think you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. ~ Stylo Fantome,
1186:So even though his involvement with the goblin uprising during his fourteenth year was to be traumatic, terrifying, and dangerous; it was probably the best thing that could have happened. At least he spent some time outdoors and got to meet some new people.

It’s a pity most of them were trying to kill him. ~ Eoin Colfer,
1187:I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it! ~ Georgia Byng,
1188:It's the best thing, fear. It creates focus. It creates drive. 'Necessity is the mother of invention', but what creates necessity? Fear. No one loves you more than when they're afraid of you. When they're looking at you because you hold their life in your hands. You become their whole world. You become their god ~ Stylo Fantome,
1189:If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don't have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. ~ Carol S Dweck,
1190:If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. ~ Carol S Dweck,
1191:No one can destroy their past. You can try your best to cover it up, edit it, run away from it, but the truth will always follow you. Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face them and own them, because they are forever a part of you. ~ Janet Mock,
1192:There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing. ~ Charles Bukowski,
1193:Do your best and become as successful as you can because the more powerful you become, the smaller the other person gets, right? So it's like the bigger you are, the better you become, the less power other people have over you. The best thing to do is to always compete with yourself and not to compete with others. ~ Kelly Cutrone,
1194:The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There's no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can't do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it's yours. ~ Drew Carey,
1195:Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation. ~ Brigitte Nielsen,
1196:He reconstructed a possible groping Chad of three or four years before, a Chad who had, after all, simply—for that was the only way to see it—been too vulgar for his privilege. Surely it was a privilege to have been young and happy just there. Well, the best thing Strether knew of him was that he had had such a dream. ~ Henry James,
1197:The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us. ~ Aristotle,
1198:When I was a kid about joining the Peace Corps. It said it was "the hardest job you'll ever love." This is what parenting is, as far as I'm concerned. This is parenting. That is the friggin' Peace Corps. Because you don't love doing this - this is the thing you love the most in your life, it's the best thing you ever do. ~ Pat Benatar,
1199:When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously. ~ Bill Bryson,
1200:How could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you’re wrong, Dori. I’m good for you even if you don’t know it yet. I know because I’ve never been good for anyone before. ~ Tammara Webber,
1201:The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000. ~ Andrew Tobias,
1202:Were you married?"
"No." No one could compare to the best thing that had ever come into his life - Natalie.
"Did you come close?"
He glanced her way. "Once. Fourteen years ago, to my high school sweetheart."
"You wanted to marry me?"
'It's why I left without talking to you. I knew If I saw you, I'd propose. ~ Donna Grant,
1203:What I feel for you is debilitating and terrifying and exhilarating…and the best thing to ever happen to me. You are the best thing to ever happen to me. And, if you only ever believe one thing I’ve told you, then believe this; if I could love someone, then it would be you, Daisy. A million times over, it would be you. ~ Samantha Towle,
1204:You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance. ~ Damian Lewis,
1205:I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body. ~ Christine Lakin,
1206:It's its own universe somehow, this cycle of reaction, reaction, reaction, him and me, flogger and him, flogger and me, all connected. The best thing, though, is when the falls land...the impact travels all the way from his body to mine, through the leather, then the handle, through my arm and to my heart. We're so...together. ~ Alexis Hall,
1207:Calling someone equally as anxious on the phone makes you feel less alone. Sometimes the best thing to hear is not "Don't worry, it's going to be okay" but actually "Tell me about it! The whole world is going to explode and I haven't slept for weeks. Now let me tell you about my specific fears of small boats and big businesses! ~ Amy Poehler,
1208:Ultimately nobody can help anyone else in life; one has this recurring experience in every conflict and confusion: that one is alone. This is not as bad as it may appear at first glance; it is also the best thing about life that everyone contains everything within himself: his fate, his future, his entire scope and world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1209:The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you. ~ Dean Norris,
1210:This wasn't at all what I wanted to talk about, which is this: How did the rabbits get all covered with flowers?"

"Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know."

"Exactly," said Anna. "You're right. That's the best thing you've said tonight. They don't need to know, and I don't want to know. So there! ~ Tove Jansson,
1211:I love him Gram, but he’s a bad guy,” she said. “They all are baby. Some are drinkers, some liars, some cheaters, some schemers…all men are bad men, we just have to love the good in em’. When you find the man that’s yours you take the bad with the good, because when it’s good baby…it’s the best thing in the world,” Gram said. ~ Ashley Antoinette,
1212:The best thing to do with those opinions is to ignore them and listen to my own. I could lose weight. That is a fact. But I am dope at any and every size. I am smart. I am funny. I am talented. I am gorgeous. I am black. I am fat. Sometimes I’m a bitch. At all times, I am a bad bitch. (The word bitch is pretty confusing, right?) ~ Gabourey Sidibe,
1213:To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either “I’m all good” or “I’m worthless; I’m no good.” The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon oneself at all – to be neither overconfident nor self-deprecating. ~ Eknath Easwaran,
1214:Your heart .That’s all I want. That’s the best thing you can give me”
You stole that that before we even met”
I don’t want to be a thief. I want you to give it”
His arms tighten around me, and his mouth presses on mine again.
It’s yours Beth”. His words flow into my soul and twist me into knots.
You know it’s yours ~ Angela Morrison,
1215:At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1216:I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the best thing you can do is wait, say nothing. The witness will want to fill the awkward silence. He will feel a vague compassion to keep talking, to prove he is not holding back, to prove he is smart and in the know, to earn your trust. ~ William Landay,
1217:I felt … a shadow of what she felt, sometimes, but that shadow was the best thing in my life. Everyone she cares about, I care about. It’s not for you, or even for her. It’s because you all gave me a gift, without even knowing you did. She taught me love could be a clean thing, by loving you. I’ll die to protect any one of you. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,
1218:People would see a lot of times fighting as a ugly thing, as a thing that denigrates the human being. In reality, you see fighting on everything... Everything's fighting. Doesn't matter what it is. You wake up in the morning, to get out of bed is a fight, believe it. So, fighting is actually the best thing a man can have in his soul. ~ Renzo Gracie,
1219:She reached out a hand and touched the hair at his temple. “You’re getting a little gray here.” “Big surprise. I really didn’t know you’d be such a handful.” “I’m the best thing that ever happened to you.” “Yeah,” he said in a breath. He leaned down and kissed her brow. “Yeah, baby. You sure are. And you’re a reproductive genius.” John ~ Robyn Carr,
1220:If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. ~ Carol S Dweck,
1221:The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant. ~ Charlie Chaplin,
1222:The best thing...perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he's hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1223:What does this season require of you? Unsure? Ask God. He is a wonderful advisor who always, always knows the Best Thing. He will help you sort it out. When you can’t trust your own discernment, you can certainly trust His. God has no agenda other than your highest good in His kingdom. There is no better leader through this minefield. ~ Jen Hatmaker,
1224:A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old movies, he said - when you see this old parchment map just… getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just… fwoom ~ Hal Duncan,
1225:I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment. ~ Rickie Lee Jones,
1226:That [salvation] came from Christ is the best thing about the best thing that ever came from Christ! That He saves me is somehow better than my being saved. It is a blessed thing to go to heaven, but I do not know that it is not a better thing to be in Christ and so, as the result of it, to get into heaven.”–1891, Sermon 2213 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1227:The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens. ~ Pat Condell, in Laughing religion off the planet - an interview with Pat Condell (27 February 2008),
1228:You’ve worked hard for everything you’ve achieved. You deserve good things.” She tapped his chest lightly to emphasize her words.

“Does that include you?” He kept his eyes down as he waited for her answer.

“You think I’m a good thing?” Her tone was hopeful as she looked back at him.

“I think you’re the best thing. ~ Minx Malone,
1229:Sometimes it takes courage and experience to allow yourself to actually go into being someone that you're not, and it's the most liberating thing to let go. I do think that's why I love acting - it's being someone that you're not. And sometimes you're really scared of it, and then once you let yourself go there, it's the best thing ever. ~ Diane Kruger,
1230:In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that. ~ Jerry Garcia,
1231:My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody. ~ Al Franken,
1232:The awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. Once you make your break, you can't turn around for your buddy who catches his trouser leg on the barbed wire. The best thing you can do for that friend (and he'd tell you this himself, if he really is your friend) is to get over the wall and keep motating. ~ Steven Pressfield,
1233:I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
1234:My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work. I saw how we had to, during bad times, stretch the dollar. And during good times, we couldn't spend it, because you never knew when the bad times were going to happen again. It gave me a great respect for how hard it is to make money. ~ Nikki Haley,
1235:You’re the best thing that ever happened to me,” she says, and for the first time in all our lives, I feel a pain in her that is too beautiful for words. It’s not the pain of rejection, like I’ve made her feel so many times. It’s not the pain of loss. It’s the pain of having, and realizing this world can gift us in ways that touch our soul. ~ Sarah Noffke,
1236:A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom. ~ Hal Duncan,
1237:People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always ~ David Levithan,
1238:herself. She is the laboratory for the child to become an adult, and it takes its toll on her. The good mother gets her needs for love, affection, and respect met by God and the safe people in her life. Only in this way can she altruistically and sacrificially do the best thing for the child, who desperately needs safe passage toward adulthood. ~ Henry Cloud,
1239:He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? ~ Victor Hugo,
1240:If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful lot easier. I still get nervous all the time. I think the best thing to do is to take a deep breath, make it simple, know what you're talking about, don't try and be fancy, don't try and be clever and just enjoy the experience. ~ Jill Douglas,
1241:People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always. ~ David Levithan,
1242:People take love’s continuity for granted, just as they take their body’s continuity for granted. They don’t realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it’s an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always. ~ David Levithan,
1243:I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1244:What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don't want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there's a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it's not the best thing ever. ~ Harlan Coben,
1245:A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the best thing he can do is be faithful to his Savior in every aspect of his life, continually saying "Thank You!" to God. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as a child and friend of God. ~ Francis Chan,
1246:I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her. I think it's the best thing going, parenthood. ~ Woody Harrelson,
1247:Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside. ~ Gilda Radner,
1248:And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough. ~ Arthur Balfour,
1249:Bob says that when you're alone, and you light a cigarette, and the cigarette is only half way lit that means someone is thinking about you.

He also says that when you find a penny, it's only "lucky" if it's heads-up.

He says the best thing to do is find a lucky penny when you're with someone and give the other person goodluck ”. ~ Stephen Chbosky,
1250:Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one. ~ Toni Morrison,
1251:All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world. But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for. ~ Lauren Kate,
1252: 'But it's all too late...my virility's gone and marriage is impossible. My life has certainly been a failure. The best thing I can do,' sighed M. Folantin, 'is to go to bed and sleep.' And as he turned back the sheets and arranged his pillows, his soul offered up a thanksgiving in celebration of the tranquilising benefits of an obliging bed. ~ Joris Karl Huysmans,
1253:I am grateful to you for being who you are: for standing up for ladies with large glasses and a bad skin and for everybody else who has had to battle to get where they have got. And most of all I am grateful to you for being my friend, Mma; I am grateful to you for that. That is the best thing that anybody can be to anybody else--a friend. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
1254:If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock. ~ Mallory Ortberg,
1255:They fell into each other's arms and she basked in his warmth, his strength, the hardness of his body against hers. He ran his hands through her hair and spoke low in her ear. "I don't know the right way to say this stuff, Tessa, but ... you're the best thing that's happened to me. I've never felt like this before, I've never ... been happy like this. ~ Toni Blake,
1256:If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it. ~ Warren Buffett,
1257:Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.” “What’s the difference?” “The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done—when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff—who else is involved, and what’s happened before, and what the rules say. ~ Jodi Picoult,
1258:I want to take care of everybody. I'm not going to leave the lower 20 percent that can't afford insurance. Just so you understand, people talk about Obamacare, and I told the Republicans this. The best thing we can do is nothing for two years, let it explode, and then we'll go in and we'll do a new plan and the Democrats will vote for it, believe me. ~ Donald Trump,
1259:Opinions constantly shifted and evolved, were fluid the same way thoughts were. Ten minutes into The Exorcist you might say, “This is boring.” An hour later you could decide that it was the best thing you’d ever seen, and it was no different with people. The villain at three in the afternoon might be the hero by sunset. It was all just storytelling. ~ David Sedaris,
1260:To love someone,” she said. “I can tell from your face that you love this man, and you loved your husband, too. What is it like?” “It is . . . wonderful,” I replied. “It gives me a reason to wake up every morning. When he is happy, I am happy; when he is sad, I want only to cheer him. It is the best thing in life; nothing else comes close to it. ~ Jeanne Kalogridis,
1261:Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life, and bringing the moments to life, as they happen. That's the best thing about television. I think it gets misunderstood, when there's one credit that says, "Written by," because that's certainly not the way it happens, in real life. ~ Summer Glau,
1262:The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last. ~ Robert M Pirsig,
1263:As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating. ~ Elizabeth Warren,
1264:I don't try to approach things any differently, songwriting-wise, regardless of what I'm doing. I try to write whatever the best thing is that I'm doing that day. If I'm working on a pop song, I'm working on a pop song to the best of my ability. If I'm working on a bluegrass song, it's the same thing. They're not really different parts of the brain. ~ Chris Stapleton,
1265:People take love’s continuity for granted, just as they take their body’s continuity for
granted. They don’t realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you
can establish that, it’s an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular
presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always. ~ David Levithan,
1266:The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1267:I sat smiling wretchedly, my heart weeping for The Little Dog Laughed, for every well-turned phrase, for the little flecks of poetry through it, my first story, the best thing I could show for my whole life. It was the record of all that was good in me, approved and printed by the great J. C. Hackmuth, and she had torn it up and thrown it into a spittoon. ~ John Fante,
1268:myself by blurting out things that sounded fine in my head. I don’t flounder, and then sink. This is a fantasy that can occupy long minutes of my time. The outcome is always the same: the imaginary interview goes really well, brilliantly, in fact, and the best thing about it is that the interviewer doesn’t ask me the question that I hate most of all. ~ Gilly Macmillan,
1269:A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read…What I began by reading I must finish by acting. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
1270:All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world.
But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just.
This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for. ~ Lauren Kate,
1271:I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in! ~ John Lydon,
1272:For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened. ~ Reza Aslan,
1273:Right. I love you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. My life started the moment I breathed into you, and I can’t think of a better use for my breath now than to use it to say, ‘I love you,’ for the rest of our lives. I’m going to marry you, and we’re going to have gorgeous, green-eyed babies who will turn us gray with their recklessness. ~ Rebecca Yarros,
1274:They tell me you're the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting sleep would have me dreaming happily of us together. I see no bad in that. Therefore, you must be the best thing to have ever happened to me because you make the worst seem wonderful. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
1275:A couple of hundred dollars for a fishing pole!?¨ You'll hear that all the time if you don't keep your mouth shut in certain company. You can talk about the aesthetics and even mention a cane rod will appreciate in value while a new graphite rod will depreciate, but the best thing to do is turn around and say, ¨$9,000.00 for a car? I only paid $500.00 for mine. ~ John Gierach,
1276:The best thing about knitting is its slowness," says Murphy. "It is so slow that we see the beauty inherent in every tiny act that makes up a sweater. So slow that we know the project is not going to get finished today--it may not get finished for many months or longer--and that allows us to make our peace with the unresolved nature of life. We slow down as we knit. ~ Carl Honor,
1277:Sydney,” Adrian interrupted, cupping my face in his hands. “Never, ever think like that. I don’t regret anything we’ve faced. Being with you is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, the one perfect decision I’ve made in a lifetime of fumbling and poor judgment. I’d go through it all again to be by your side. Never doubt that. Never doubt how I feel about you. ~ Richelle Mead,
1278:poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. ~ Daron Acemo lu,
1279:He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1280:...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. ~ Daron Acemo lu,
1281:I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1282:When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me. ~ RZA,
1283:The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better. ~ Jen Lancaster,
1284:The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person. ~ Joe Hahn,
1285:Still, maybe a good challenge was just what she needed to bring her back to herself. So perhaps the best thing to do was simply to call her and tell her—let loose the dogs of war and let the chips fall where they may. It was a wonderfully mangled metaphor, which made it seem even more convincing, so I stepped away from the group of cops and reached for my cell phone. Deborah ~ Jeff Lindsay,
1286:But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table. ~ Jean Claude Juncker,
1287:I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate. ~ David Horowitz,
1288:That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa,
1289:I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness. ~ Alan Bradley,
1290:It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy. ~ Leo Kadanoff,
1291:Most of the pubs had barred Des, but he came in to the Tiger bar and he points to me and says, ‘And you, out! I want you by the back of the car park.’ So I obliged him and proceeded to kick the poor cunt all around the car park, he ended up in hospital for a week! Eventually, when he came out of hospital he said that I was the best thing that had happened to him, I’d cured him! ~ Stephen Richards,
1292:Is Gabriel still mad at me?"
"Nesbitt hesitates and then says, "On a scale of one to ten, I'd say he's at nine and a half."
"So, it could be worse then."
"He'll calm down." Nesbitt nudges me and says, "The best thing about arguments is the making-up after. I see a big reconciliation ahead for you two: you apologise and he takes you into his arms and --"
"Nesbitt, shut up. ~ Sally Green,
1293:The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy. ~ Bill Bellamy,
1294:Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1295:On the other hand, it seemed to be working. For Samantha, anyway. And in comparison, my own relationship with Bernard was sorely lacking. Not only in sex, but in the simple fact that I still wasn’t sure I was ever going to see him again. I guess the best thing about living with a guy is that you know you’re going to see him again. I mean, he has to come home at some point, right? ~ Candace Bushnell,
1296:You can love and hate someone at the same time. You can so pity them it’s like a fist in your stomach, be so resentful you want to hit them. They can be the best thing that ever happened to you, and the worst. You can have thoughts of leaving them and yet the memory of their skin, the pads of their fingers across your ribcage . . . these can take your breath away, even after a year. ~ Sabine Durrant,
1297:You can love and hate someone at the same time. You can so pity them it’s like a fist in your stomach, be so resentful you want to hit them. They can be the best thing that ever happened to you, and the worst. You can have thoughts of leaving them, and yet the memory of their skin, the pads of their fingers across your rib cage . . . these can take your breath away, even after a year. ~ Sabine Durrant,
1298:I think that at the time, when I was first pregnant, it was hard to make the transition from being totally self-involved to not being able to think about myself at all. At the end of the day, I think that's the best thing that someone can go through. I think it makes you a better person. It doesn't mean that people who don't go through that aren't good people. For me, it was a good thing. ~ Leslie Mann,
1299:You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1300:What keeps me up at night? Probably most, thinking about the future for my kids. It sounds kind of funny, but not so much what they're going to do, but how as a parent, how my wife and I as parents, how best we should prepare them for the world. And I know everybody does this, I think everybody stays up at night thinking about the best thing for their kids, and astronauts are no different. ~ Leroy Chiao,
1301:Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go. ~ C S Lewis,
1302:I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1303:Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group. ~ Lauren Bacall,
1304:I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way. ~ Margaret Cho,
1305:The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising… and it’s magic and wonderful and strange. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1306:You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman."

"Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them. ~ Ray Bradbury,
1307:With God for thy portion thou art rich indeed, for He will supply thy need, comfort thy heart, assuage thy grief, guide thy steps, be with thee in the dark valley, and then take thee home, to enjoy Him as thy portion for ever. “I have enough,” said Esau; this is the best thing a worldly man can say, but Jacob replies, “I have all things,” which is a note too high for carnal minds. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1308:Word of mouth is more effective than traditional advertising for two key reasons. First, it’s more persuasive. Second, word of mouth is more targeted. It is naturally directed towards an interested audience. But want to know the best thing about word of mouth? It’s available to everyone. And it doesn’t require millions of dollars spent on advertising. It just requires getting people to talk. ~ Jonah Berger,
1309:But it was worth it. The blonde was some dancer. She was one of the best dancers I ever danced with. I'm not kidding, some of these very stupid girls can really knock you out on a dance floor. You take a really smart girl, and half the time she's trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she's such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her. ~ J D Salinger,
1310:Take the juice of one lime and add it to two cups of diced watermelon, one cup of diced and peeled cucumber, three or four sliced green onions, a couple of tablespoons of fresh cilantro that’s been cut very fine, two teaspoons of jalapeno peppers cut up just as fine, or more if you want it hotter, and a teaspoon of sugar. It’s the best thing in the world with fresh fried corn tortilla chips, ~ Carolyn Brown,
1311:The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising... and it’s magic and wonderful and strange. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1312:The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects. ~ Toni Morrison,
1313:Tr...ooooo...luv...' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.' 'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. ~ William Goldman,
1314:Confidence. That's huge as an actor. Confidence can get you a long way. Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work. So it's a head game for me. "Can I really be confident in knowing my skill set is down? Can I perform like I own this role?" ~ Steven Yeun,
1315:Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold. ~ Warren Buffett,
1316:Maybe my work isn't a cry for help. It may just be a baby's need to cry or a dog's need to bark. You know, barks that seem connected to phantom noises and cries that just come; though a baby's cries are usually efficient - something is bothering them. Anyway, I think giving money is a sign of love. If you truly want to help someone, a lot of times giving them money is the best thing you can do. ~ Jonathan Ames,
1317:The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ~ Machado de Assis,
1318:A fellow writer told me that Richard [Hell] once told her that the best thing about being a rock 'n roll star would be the option of constructing his environment so that he would never have to be around anyone he didn't want to know from, which not only sounds like building your own concentration camp but is just exactly what most of the declining rockstars of the Sixties have done to themselves. ~ Lester Bangs,
1319:I don't want to love her. I don't want to be in love. People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life. But if you cannot have that regular presence, you only have the one foundation to support you, always. ~ David Levithan,
1320:She'd gotten even prettier over the years.
And now she was in his house.
And he had no idea if this was the best thing to happen to him or the stupidest thing he'd ever done.
Kelsey watched Nate go, thinking this might've been the worst decision she'd ever made. Okay, so it wasn't nearly as bad as that time she'd decided to go on the Sky Screamer at the amusement park when she was drunk. ~ Cindi Madsen,
1321:I argued that you don't know if your actions are futile; that you don't have the memory of the future; that the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. They may unfold long after your death. That is when the words of so many writers often resonate. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1322:Tr...ooooo...luv...'
Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,' Inigo cried. 'You heard him - true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile.'
'Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile - true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. ~ William Goldman,
1323:Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness. ~ Saddam Hussein,
1324:The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say. ~ Ai Weiwei,
1325:The best thing—in Shadow’s opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he’d plunged as low as he could plunge and he’d hit bottom. He didn’t worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He did not awake in prison with a feeling of dread; he was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1326:We’ve divided the world into us versus them—an ever-shrinking population of good people against bad ones. But it’s not a dichotomy. People can be doers of good in many circumstances. And they can be doers of bad in others. It’s true of all of us. We are not sufficiently described by the best thing we have ever done, nor are we sufficiently described by the worst thing we have ever done. We are all of it. ~ Atul Gawande,
1327:Tana’s blue eyes are sympathetic. “You’ve got a lot of mistrust built up because of your ma, and you have to realize you’re not her. Your life is what you make of it, and I’m still holding out some hope that this guy is worthy of you. Give him a chance to grovel. A man’s character has a tendency to get really fucking clear when he’s groveling because the best thing that ever happened to him is on the line. ~ Meghan March,
1328:There’s life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it’s actually a great way to leave, because it’s giving Gavin the message that we haven’t been defeated, we are up for it, we’re young, we’re in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence. When we round the corner of the driveway I take his hand and we run down to the gate together. ~ John Marsden,
1329:I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically. ~ Dan Harmon,
1330:I'll think of something," he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace's world, that was what Rangers did best, and the best thing a warrior apprentice could do was let the Ranger get on with thinking while a warrior took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way. He settled back in the saddle, contented with his lot in life. ~ John Flanagan,
1331:You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them wrong all again...That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that- well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
1332:Ginger admitted that she and Basil made a good investigative team, but her heart was divided. The best medicine for her emotional angst was to stay away from the man who caused it. Yet, Feathers & Flair’s reputation was on the line, not to mention her own. The best thing for her business and her social wellbeing would be to solve this case quickly. “I would like that,” she said. Though Ginger, technically, ~ Lee Strauss,
1333:When I first came into acting, I had great opportunities to make a decent movie. I had a run there in 2005, '06, '07 - for a long time it was "Oh, he's the best thing in the movie that's not that good." I started questioning: Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed in wrestling a bit longer? And then budgets became lower and lower and the pay kinda stayed the same and there wasn't a lot of growth. ~ Dwayne Johnson,
1334:I didn't exactly want to get divorced. I didn't exactly not want to. I believed in almost equal measure both that divorcing Paul was the right thing to do and that by doing so I was destroying the best thing I had. By then my marriage had become like the trail in that moment when I realized there was a bull in both directions. I simply made a leap of faith and pushed on in the direction where I'd never been. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1335:I didn’t exactly want to get divorced. I didn’t exactly not want to. I believed in almost equal measure both that divorcing Paul was the right thing to do and that by doing so I was destroying the best thing I had. By then my marriage had become like the trail in that moment when I realized there was a bull in both directions. I simply made a leap of faith and pushed on in the direction where I’d never been. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1336:Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful. ~ Michael Seresin,
1337:The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that--well, lucky you. ~ Anonymous,
1338:The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty. ~ Bertrand Russell,
1339:You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in the little silver bags, I mean.

It's looking out of the windows at the clouds, and thinking, maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay.

Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds, but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like that. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1340:The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that-well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
1341:The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
1342:The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that--well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
1343:Vodka at night. Pickle juice in the morning (the best thing for a hangover). Throwing some kettlebells around between this hangover and the next one. A Russian’s day well spent. The ‘kettlebell’ or girya is a cast iron weight which looks like a basketball with a suitcase handle. It is an old Russian toy. As the 1986 Soviet Weightlifting Yearbook put it, “It is hard to find a sport that has deeper roots in the ~ Pavel Tsatsouline,
1344:Buzz Osborne: I could believe it, but I couldn't believe it. Whenever you're dealing with people in your life that are junkies, their death never surprises you -- you're always pretty much preparing for it. It fucking blows, you know? We had a show that night, and we played it anyway. I wasn't about to stop my life as a result of that stuff. The best thing I can do is be a living example of how that stuff doesn't work. ~ Mark Yarm,
1345:If God is to love you, what must he give you? He must give you what is best for you. And the best thing in all the universe is God. If he were to give you all health, the best job, the best spouse, the best computer, the best vacations, and the best success in any realm, and yet withhold himself, then he would amount in the end to hating you. But if he gives you himself, even if nothing besides, he loves you infinitely. ~ Anonymous,
1346:Lagrange was born in Turin (now Italy), but his family was partly French ancestry on his father's side, who was originally wealthy, managed to squander all the family's fortune in speculations, leaving his son with no inheritance. Later in life, Lagrange described this economic catastrophe as the best thing that had ever happened to him: "Had I inherited a fortune I would probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. ~ Mario Livio,
1347:The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget about being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you. ~ Philip Roth,
1348:Grief was a strange companion. At first it had hit hard and strong, like a blast of frigid wind, a shuddering blow that left no air in his body. Then it subsided for a while, rising up from time to time like an adder, coiled and poised to sink its teeth into the flesh of its victim. Ian had tried outrunning it, then fighting it, but quickly found the best thing was to lie still and let it crash over him like a wave. ~ Carole Lawrence,
1349:The #1 demotivator for talented people is having to put up with bozos, as Steve Jobs would call them. Nothing is more frustrating for A Players than having to work with B and C Players who slow them down and suck their energy. In that sense, “The best thing you can do for employees — a perk better than foosball or free sushi — is hire only ‘A’ players to work alongside them. Excellent colleagues trump everything else, ~ Verne Harnish,
1350:The Best Thing In The World
What's the best thing in the world?
June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
Truth, not cruel to a friend;
Pleasure, not in haste to end;
Beauty, not self-decked and curled
Till its pride is over-plain;
Love, when, so, you're loved again.
What's the best thing in the world?
--Something out of it, I think.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
1351:The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me. ~ Johny Hendricks,
1352:The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you don’t even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Here’s every word I spoke for a week. Here’s a year’s worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them. ~ Kenneth Goldsmith,
1353:Why can't I force myself to leave?" he rested his forehead against hers and closed his eyes. "I hurt too. For six years I fought every day not to think of you, and I lost, because every day you were all I could see. You were the best thing in my life - so sweet and innocent, and so goddamn tempting." His hand strayed from her hip and slid down to grip her ass. He swallowed the groan. "I stayed away so you could move on. ~ Kate McCarthy,
1354:As an actor you bring some of your own experiences which can make things easier. You build off of it, but your imagination is always the best thing you have as far as creating things I think specifically for what that character is going through. But you're definitely drawing obviously upon things that you can connect to, and then you kind of mold the change that you're making into something that's right for the character. ~ Vince Vaughn,
1355:I'm asked a lot what the best thing about cooking for a living is. And it's this: to be a part of a subculture. To be part of a historical continuum, a secret society with its own language and customs. To enjoy the instant gratification of making something good with one's hands--using all one's senses. It can be, at times, the purest and most unselfish way of giving pleasure (thought oral sex has to be a close second). ~ Anthony Bourdain,
1356:I guess I prefer to play live, but I don't want to have only live CDs. I like playing live because there are alot of things that can happen. I can interact with the audience and say some things to get me in trouble. On the other hand, the studio is nice because you can really take your time and make something that you know is the best thing that you can ever do. But nothing beats being up on stage in front of all that energy. ~ Katy Perry,
1357:The best thing we can do for our relationships with others . . . is to render our relationship to ourselves more conscious. This is not a narcissistic activity. In fact, it will prove to be the most loving thing we can do for the Other. The greatest gift to others is our own best selves. Thus, paradoxically, if we are to serve relationship well, we are obliged to affirm our individual journey. —JAMES HOLLIS The Eden Project ~ Neil Strauss,
1358:The best thing you can do with actors is collaborate with them. My job is to inspire them to give their best. And they're only inspired if they feel they are part of the creative process, otherwise they'll shut down. So my goal is always to ask people what they would like to do before I even say my opinion. I usually don't know anything until I see it. I'm a fetish filmmaker - I make films based on what I want to see. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn,
1359:[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure. ~ Bertrand Russell,
1360:Anybody who tells you that being married and having kids is a walk in the park - it's a beautiful thing. It's the best thing I've ever done in my life - but it's definitely work. You have to work at it like you do anything else you care about in life. It takes commitment and it takes work, and that's all part of it, but in the end there's nothing more worthwhile than working on your family. It's just the best thing in the world. ~ Nick Lachey,
1361:I don't remember seeing what other people had and wanting them. I remember specific moments when I just felt content, and I still am. I think that even at a young age, I had a sense that life was what you make of it. That, and the confidence that jelly donuts are about the best thing on Earth. The two things are probably related; if a $1 jelly donut makes you really, really happy, you can get through a lot with a little. ~ Alyssa Mastromonaco,
1362:Mo and the staff talk about captivity like it's the best thing a dolphin can hope for, but that kind of talk just makes me think of Carlito and all the years he spent trapped by the routines of prison life in a six-by-nine-foot prison cell, the size of a parking space, and what Dr. Joe used to say about inmates like my brother who were also sentenced to solitary confinement: 'It doesn't have to be violent for it to be torture. ~ Patricia Engel,
1363:This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important. ~ Chanakya,
1364:Alice glanced at her wristwatch and noted, with surprise, that it had just gone two. No wonder she was hungry. She laced her fingers and stretched her arms forward. She stood up. Frustrating to lose an entire morning to the rigors of pushing Diggory Brent from A to B, but there was nothing to be done about it now. Half a century as a professional writer had taught her there were some days when the best thing to do was to walk away. ~ Kate Morton,
1365:But I was mostly disappointed in myself for letting that day get to me so much that I ruined the best thing that ever happened to me. I never imagined that relationships were like that. I never imagined the extreme joy you can experience. What I did know was how it felt when someone you love was ripped away from you. How gut-wrenching it could feel. I should have stayed away from any possibility of ever feeling that again. Cole ~ Kimberly Lauren,
1366:In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish. ~ Natsuo Kirino,
1367:But let me tell you something, girl,” she goes on, speaking low and discreet for the few customers in the place. “What you feel for him or anyone else isn’t what you need. This—” she taps my chest over my heart, “what you’re feeling right now—is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when all the pieces of your heart start to come back together, and they will, they’ll be stronger. And much tougher for someone to pierce. ~ Penelope Douglas,
1368:But the best thing about living with the guys was the “Stairway” Clean. The deceptively simple goal of the “Stairway” Clean was to clean the entire apartment in the eight minutes it took to listen to “Stairway to Heaven” at a ridiculously loud volume on Bajir’s record player. In situations of extreme filth (i.e., always), playing the song multiple times was allowed, although a two- or three-“Stairway” Clean was considered a failure. ~ Una LaMarche,
1369:I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1370:I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn’t taste good, but I couldn’t disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can’t even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1371:The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have happened, and then go and expand on them. However small it is, you use your imagination to create what that reality is. There's something kind of fun when you're not old enough to do anything, driving a car, getting into a bar, drinking, going to a party you don't belong to, something when you're young in that innocent way. ~ Vince Vaughn,
1372:There was this one day, though, that I saw another side of Amanda. When someone pisses her off, she can get bitchy as hell.” Clara patted her knee. “Everyone gets moody from time to time. What you need to keep in mind is that it is probably not about you, and there is no reason for you to get upset. The best thing you can do is to get out of the line of fire. You don’t want to get hit just because you are there and make an easy target. ~ I T Lucas,
1373:If you want to see God do wonders in your marriage, start praising your spouse. Start appreciating and encouraging her. Every single day, a husband should tell his wife, “I love you. I appreciate you. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.” A wife should do the same for her husband. Your relationship would improve immensely if you’d simply start speaking kind, positive words, blessing your spouse instead of cursing him or her. ~ Joel Osteen,
1374:My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy. ~ Charlotte Sophia Kasl,
1375:Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. ~ Joseph Campbell,
1376:The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. ~ C S Lewis,
1377:Weirdly enough, the best thing that ever happened to black people in the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J. Simpson verdict because it shut down the white guilt bank. And white guilt has never led to anything good. It's brought us spiraling crime rates, mostly with black victims, and a permanent underclass living in public housing projects. For years, liberals cried that "law and order" and "welfare reform" were racist code words. ~ Ann Coulter,
1378:I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangle with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play carde with Catarina Loss."
"What?"
"She cheats," Magnus explained. "Never mind that one. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1379:It’s not that most girls are delusional, per se. It’s just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different. And if there’s one thing I’m really against, it is turning a blind eye to reality. What’s the point? Things are the way they are, and the best thing for us to do is to just acknowledge that. No one ever died from having too much information. It’s the misunderstandings that are the problem. ~ Rebecca Serle,
1380:I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss."
"What?"
"She cheats," Magnus explained. "Never mind that one. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1381:The best thing that happened from that situation when I failed was the fact that I failed and I failed because I was trying to do things that I don't like to do. I like to make movies and I like the creative process. I don't really care about the business end of it. It's not my thing. So I was all of sudden totally immersed in the business end of it and dealing with human resources, lawyers, and accountants, and so on. It wasn't for me. ~ Jerry Weintraub,
1382:The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music."
"Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?"
"It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer. ~ Cinda Williams Chima,
1383:Trump was so different - in a bad way - that I thought the best thing I could do was to resist him. And that's because he was attacking the institutions of our democracy, from the First Amendment and the free press to the judiciary. He was stifling internal dissent, and then he was making false and misleading statements routinely. And to me, that's what takes us down the road to authoritarianism and that's why I decided to start resisting him. ~ Ted Lieu,
1384:If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1385:I read once that the best thing that can happen to a woman is to get her heart broken. Before that, she has no real sense of herself. No real sense of pain, because only in love does she know what it’s like to find the one thing that gives her breath and then to lose it.
After that, she knows she can survive. No matter what relationships come and go, she can count on herself to pull through, and although it hurts, the break is necessary ~ Colleen Hoover,
1386:You needed people who were going to be able to be strong for you. I thought I could do that. But then that night happened, and I realized just how really weak I was. You were drunk and hurting and needing a friend, and then we kissed, and I realized I couldn’t be the stronger one. I thought that I was somehow pushing myself onto you, and that it was… I don’t know, Bear. I thought putting distance between us was the best thing to do at the time. ~ T J Klune,
1387:I’ve been racking my brain, trying to figure out what’s the best thing for us to do. What’s the right thing for us to do. And I can’t come up with a fuckin’ clue. All I know is I want to be with you.” He links his fingers with mine. “I can’t fight the rights or the wrongs anymore. I don’t care how old I am or how young you are or anything in between. All that matters is you are my forever. You always have been. You always will be. ~ Carian Cole,
1388:I can’t say when you’ll get love or how you’ll find it or even promise that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it’s never too much to ask for it and that it’s not crazy to fear you’ll never have it again, even though your fears are probably wrong. Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It’s the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It’s worthy of all the hullabaloo. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1389:It was really a very simple thing, after all,—it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others. It is a very little thing, perhaps, but it is the best thing of all. He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,
1390:Listen, I’m going to give you some advice, not because I
think you need it, but because I feel like I’ve earned it. The right, I mean. To give advice. Here it is:
don’t hold onto things. It’s a problem the men in my family have. It’s taken me a long time to figure
this out. Me, my father, my grandfather, we collect things. We collect miseries. It’s what we do. But
sometimes the best thing to do is to just let things go. To let them pass. ~ Joe Meno,
1391:Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt. The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort. I've met and talked to people, and they're also fusions of showbiz periphery. But the best thing was, if you did your own voice and you were the star of the show - if it came to blows and they had you on the ropes and you had to leave, then they could just get someone to sound exactly like you. ~ Billy West,
1392:I swear, baby, this is the only place I want to be. I’ve never wanted, never needed, anything the way I do you. I should have known you’d make yourself this important to me. Should have seen it coming. You’re sweet and funny and bitchy and beautiful and so fucking strong. The best thing in my world. No one will ever be – no one could ever be – who you are to me. And I don’t have even the slightest intention of ever letting you go. ~ Suzanne Wright,
1393:It's a good thing to read a lot. It's a good thing to write a lot. The best thing to do is to live a lot. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Make a fool of yourself. Watch other people make fools of themselves. Believe something stupid and then realize you've been tricked. Feel embarrassed. Be brave and bold. Then be cowardly and pathetic. Give a damn about the world outside yourself. Have some very dark nights. It's all good. You'll use all of it. ~ Michael Grant,
1394:The best thing about the new energy field activating your planet is that you will find yourselves more able to create your own realities because the expansive nature of the Sirian geometric field makes synchronicities visible in 3D. If you just follow the connections between unrelated things, you can create anything. This expanded field will harmonize your body to any higher vibrations that you can detect, so let your body lead your choices. ~ Barbara Hand Clow,
1395:You really remember the words, don’t you!” Yuki said, genuinely impressed. “Who wouldn’t? I was just as crazy about rock as you are,” I said. “I used to be glued to the radio every day. I spent all my allowance on records. I thought rock ‘n’ roll was the best thing ever created.” “And now?” “I still listen sometimes. I like some songs. But I don’t listen so carefully, and I don’t memorize all the lyrics anymore. They don’t move me like they used to. ~ Anonymous,
1396:Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world. ~ Richie Havens,
1397:I read once that the best thing that can happen to a woman is to get her heart broken. Before that, she has no real sense of herself. No real sense of pain, because only in love does she know what it’s like to find the one thing that gives her breath and then to lose it.

After that she knows she can survive. No matter what relationships come and go, she can count on herself to pull through, and although it hurts, the break is necessary. ~ Penelope Douglas,
1398:I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise you that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it and that it's not crazy to fear you'll never have it again, even though your fears are probably wrong. Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1399:I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running it's fingers up your spine, the best thing to do--the only thing--is run. ~ Lauren Oliver,
1400:The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee’s one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would evaluate him only on that one thing. I had started doing this just to simplify the task of managing people. But then I noticed a deeper result: defining roles reduced conflict. Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities. ~ Peter Thiel,
1401:Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made. ~ Kurt Russell,
1402:She has embarrassingly inquired, of her children, whether there's a woman in his life, and has rejoiced at hearing no. Not because she doesn't want him to be happy, not because she has any right or even much inclination to be jealous anymore, but because it means there's some shadow of a chance that he still thinks, as she does more than ever, that they were not just the worst thing that ever happened to each other, they were also the best thing. ~ Jonathan Franzen,
1403:you do that all the time you know. you ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. ask me a question where the answer could be yes? ask me if you're worth the hard work? ask me if in the last seven years of my life i've woken up in a cold sweat knowing i lost the most important person in my life apart from this kid i'm holding? ask me if getting you pregnat has felt like the best thing that's happened to me since my son was born? ~ Melina Marchetta,
1404:If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find, then that may be the best thing that you can do. And - also, if you do become a Wall Street banker, I think you need to be aware of what you're doing in terms of your daily work, not just earning money to give a lot away. But you need to think about - am I harming people through the work that I'm doing? ~ Peter Singer,
1405:Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes. ~ Danny Wallace,
1406:Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is. ~ David McCullough,
1407:In some ways, forcing me to leave was the best thing that could have happened to me. In other ways, it was a disaster. I'm still glad they did it though, because I think I might have just died if I had stayed at the coast. Although I ended up there a couple years later, when my mother relapsed on a whim, I think I needed that two years away from that horrible little coastal town where time is frozen and ideas creep forward too slow to notice any progress. ~ Ashly Lorenzana,
1408:Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture. ~ George Eliot,
1409:Many people are laughing when they see me, but I'm playing Mrs.Baskets all pristine. I'm playing it not-Louie. I'm not being Louie. I'm just being the character that I think it should be. I had to make a decision as to whether I was going to change my voice or not, but we decided for me not to change my voice, and I think that was the best thing ever, because I think it would've made a big difference in the character. I don't think it would've been as good. ~ Louie Anderson,
1410:The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1411:I don’t need you to fix me, Stella. I need you for everything else. I need your smiles, your laughter. I need you to be my best friend, my lover, my all. I need to take care of you, touch your skin, make you dinner, give you pleasure whenever you’re in need.”
I lean in, emotion clogging my throat. “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I’d happily spend the rest of my life trying to be the best thing that has ever happened to you too. ~ Kristen Callihan,
1412:When you're in operations, the best thing you can do at the top level is get the strategy right. You have to get the big ideas right, you have to determine what is the policy, what is the level of effort you're willing to commit to it? And then you delegate to those who have to execute that strategy to the appropriate level. What's the appropriate level? It's the level where people are trained and equipped to take decisions so we move swiftly against the enemy. ~ James Mattis,
1413:When Mamaw picked me up from school, I’d ask her not to get out of the car lest my friends see her—wearing her uniform of baggy jeans and a men’s T-shirt—with a giant menthol cigarette hanging from her lip. When people asked, I lied and told them that I lived with my mom, that she and I took care of my ailing grandmother. Even today, I still regret that far too many high school friends and acquaintances never knew Mamaw was the best thing that ever happened to me. My ~ J D Vance,
1414:Going back” had two distinct meanings at the school, depending on how it was said. It was the best thing in the world. It was also the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It was returning to a place that understood you so well that it had reached across realities to find you, claiming you as its own and only; it was being sent to a family that wanted to love you, wanted to keep you safe and sound, but didn’t know you well enough to do anything but hurt you. ~ Seanan McGuire,
1415:I think living in Baltimore and being a part of the community and trying to be part of as many communities as possible within the city, the best thing that anyone can do in Baltimore is just to be a part of it and contribute to it and to not see it as...A lot of people from outside the city see this city for its blight and I feel like people who live within the city do the opposite and see this city for what defines it as, in my mind, the most beautiful place to live. ~ Dan Deacon,
1416:The best thing about Caleb is not his perfect body, or his half-smiles, or his even sexier voice…it’s his mannerisms. The teasing, the way he runs his thumbnail across his bottom lip when he’s thinking, the way he bites his tongue when he’s turned on. The way he makes me look at him when I have an orgasm. He can undress you with one look, make you feel like you’re standing naked in front of him. I know from experience, it’s a pleasure to be naked in front of Caleb. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
1417:With a groan, I gave in. I scrambled onto the bed, then stretched my body out on top of his, the way I’d always wanted to. He was hot, solid muscle beneath me. And our cocks lined up beside each other, like they were meant to be there. “Oh, yeah…” he moaned. “Want you so bad.” He arched his neck to lean in for the kiss, which went hot and wild, right away. He jammed his tongue in my mouth, moaning. Our dicks scraped together, and it was the best thing I’d ever felt. ~ Sarina Bowen,
1418:I am a Magyr. I could crush your skull with my hands and drink this rat town under the table afterwards. And if I wanted to kill myself a passel of sailors, I'd bloody well do it with cannon, saber, and a fist in the teeth, not by batting my damn eyelashes. You'd be wise to remember it, Maggie, my love, and if we see a mermaid on our jaunt across the high seas, the best thing for all of us would be to let Sheapshank here put an arrow through her giggling head. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
1419:The best thing about Caleb is not his perfect body, or his half smiles, or his even sexier voice... it's his mannerisms. The teasing, the way he runs his thumbnail across his bottom lip when he's thinking, the way he bites his tongue when he's turned on. The way he makes me look at him when I have an orgasm. He can undress you with one look, make you feel like you're standing naked in front of him.I know from experience, it's a pleasure to be naked in front of Caleb. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
1420:The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? ~ Ann Voskamp,
1421:And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.' 'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. [...] 'Indeed.' 'Does it work? Are they happier dead?' 'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1422:We first take our everyday, ordinary life—our sleeping, eating, going-to-work life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for us is the best thing we can do for him. When we fix our attention on God, we’ll be changed from the inside out. We’ll readily recognize what he wants from us and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around us, always dragging us down to its level of immaturity, God brings out the best in us, develops well-formed maturity.”3 ~ Sarah Bessey,
1423:A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now. ~ Jason Kander,
1424:III. ATTACK BY STRATAGEM 1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. 2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu,
1425:I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world. ~ Janeane Garofalo,
1426:We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier. ~ Melody Beattie,
1427:I would go to these 'Supernatural' conventions because, well, one, it's like going to your own version of Disneyland. You're adored for an hour or whatever, and then you walk out and you're nobody again, but, boy, when you're there, it must be what it's like to be Brad Pitt all day, you know? You're the best thing going. And it pays pretty well, too! But I was concurrently loved and hated by everybody, because the suspension of disbelief is, uh, pretty high among 'Supernatural' fans. ~ Kurt Fuller,
1428:They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't. ~ David Duke,
1429:You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only ‘now’ in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1430:The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted forever, unless maybe he always would have skinny arms. So whatever came your way, you had to make the best of it, grin and bear it, smile through the storm. And the funny thing was, if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you ever could have wished for yourself. ~ Dean Koontz,
1431:And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.'
'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. [...]
'Indeed.'
'Does it work? Are they happier dead?'
'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1432:it is a valuable lesson that should often be reinforced—that many who are faced with impending death, a disease that will likely take them in a year’s time, for example, quite often insist that their affliction is the best thing that ever happened to them. It takes the immediacy of mortality to remind them to watch the sunrise and the sunset, to note the solitary flower among the rocks, to appreciate those loved ones around them, to taste their food, and revel in the feel of a cool breeze. ~ R A Salvatore,
1433:Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. ~ Lou Doillon,
1434:Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me". ~ Clarence Page,
1435:I want more than that. I want it all. You. Your laugh.” He pressed a kiss to the side of my mouth. “Your random idiocy that I find hilarious.” A kiss to the other side. “Your kindness.” He moved down to my throat. “Your strength.” The other side of my throat. “Your love, even when it’s not deserved,” he added, He lifted his head, his eyes finding mine. “I want you.” His eyes grew serious as he hovered above me. “I love you, completely and wholeheartedly. You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me. ~ Tijan,
1436:Claire wants to say: Well, I'd say fuck too, if I were me. I'd say it backward and forward and around the block, fuck this and fuck that and fuck it all once, twice, three times. But all she does is smile at Marcia and give her what she hopes is a nod that understands that it's absolutely no problem to say fuck, on Park Avenue, on a Wednesday, at a coffee morning, in fact it's probably the best thing to say, given the circumstances, maybe they should all say it in unison, make a singsong out of it. ~ Colum McCann,
1437:Page: Don't keep the world on tenterhooks, Tom! Out with it! What's the best thing we can do to ensure a long, happy, healthy future for mankind?
Grey: We can just about restore the balance of the ecology, the biosphere, and so on-in other words we can live within our means instead of on an unrepayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century-if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and wasteful of our species.
Page: Follow that if you can, Mr. President. ~ John Brunner,
1438:Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go. ~ C L R James,
1439:It's a frightening thing to be truly honest with yourself. It means you have no one left to turn to anymore, no-one to blame, and to one to look to for salvation. You have to give up any possibility that there will ever be any refuge for you. You have to accept the reality that you are truly and finally on your own. The best thing you can hope for in life is to meet a teacher who will smash all of your dreams, dash all of your hopes, tear your teddy-bear beliefs out of your arms and fling them over a cliff. ~ Brad Warner,
1440:The best thing that is happening with the health care is premiums will come down. We'll have tremendous competition; you know, we're getting rid of the border state lines, and we're going to have tremendous competition. We're going to have insurance companies fighting, like life insurance. You know, we - life insurance, you have these companies that are like - like going all over the place. We're going to have a tremendous - tremendously competitive market and health care costs are going to be forced down. ~ Donald Trump,
1441:Getting out of the house. Every. Single. Day. The best thing you can do for yourself, your sanity, and your baby is to leave the scene of the crime. Leave the place with the dishes in the sink and the overflowing Diaper Genie. Put your baby in a carrier or a stroller and go on a walk around the neighborhood. Put in some headphones and listen to Beyoncé or Adele or a podcast on business ethics. Do whatever you have to do to remind yourself that there is a life beyond your nest and that you are still part of it. ~ Rachel Hollis,
1442:I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want. ~ C S Lewis,
1443:Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home. ~ Eileen Myles,
1444:At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he was in high school. It kind of made me feel like, "Yeah." I didn't want to go to college; I wanted to do stand-up. And I figured, "What's the point of doing stand-up around DC? I'm always going to be under-appreciated there because I started there." I felt like I was strong enough and unique enough that I should give it a big leash to shine. New York was the best thing that ever happened to me as a comedian. ~ Dave Chappelle,
1445:I don't know much about the music business, but for just general advice for someone trying to create things, as simple as this sounds, I think the best thing you can do is constantly try to improve upon your work. Always focus on that first and foremost, and leave everything else (marketing, image) completely secondary. Obviously, easier said than done when you're trying to make a living, but if you can move along those lines and earnestly try to make things that you really enjoy it can only benefit you in the long run. ~ Joe Rogan,
1446:I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out of everything. It just makes work a lot more fun whenever you're working on different things all the times and usually once I work with a band I usually will want to work with them again, just because we become good friends. That sometimes is the only bad thing, is that I work with bands that I already know. That's not really the best thing in the world because I should always be keeping my eyes out on other things. ~ John Congleton,
1447:Sue thought as she walked home across the moor . . . I'm sure of a roof over my head and plenty to eat. My troubles are imaginary, they are all in myself and the best thing to do is to pull myself together and make the best of life. She determined to cease brooding about Darnay. She had got to do without him, so she must try to do without him cheerfully and find what pleasures she could in small things. She had a comfortable home, and kind friends and interesting work; it was ungrateful to be dissatisfied with life. ~ D E Stevenson,
1448:The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a thing. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody;d hear you, and you couldn't expect anybody to find you, and you'd have centipedes and spiders crawling all over you, and the bones of the ones who died before are scattered all around you, and it's dark and soggy, and way overhead there's this tiny, tiny circle of light like a winter moon. You die there in this place, little by little, all by yourself. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1449:We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain.
“You know, Francis,” I said.
“What?”
It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. “You know,” I said, “I’m really not attracted to you. I mean, not that—”
“Isn’t that interesting,” he said coolly. “I’m really not attracted to you, either.”
“But—”
“You were there.”
We drove the rest of the way to school in a not very comfortable silence. ~ Donna Tartt,
1450:Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles
but that motherfucker never bedded a girl from
West Chester
and survived

She was a toothache
that one
and she tasted like crack
the best thing about her
was if I was ever hungry
I could always make a meal out of whatever
was making rest at the corners of her mouth
I can't remember her name
as is the case with most of them
then again I can't remember
how many donuts I ate this morning
or how many beers I'll drink tonight,
tomorrow ~ Dave Matthes,
1451:The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you’d muted them, and they couldn’t do a damn thing about it. There was never any fighting on school grounds. The simulation simply didn’t allow it. The entire planet of Ludus was a no-PvP zone, meaning that no player-versus-player combat was permitted. At this school, the only real weapons were words, so I’d become skilled at wielding them. ~ Ernest Cline,
1452:What is the “eternal life” that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God. “This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (Jn 17:3). What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, delight and contentment than anything else? Knowledge of God. “This is what the LORD says: ‘Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me”’ (Jer 9:23-24). ~ J I Packer,
1453:I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world. ~ James Dean,
1454:After watching what this purchase had cost Irwin and Linda, Amy and I chose a different path. Love, we figured, may be the best thing that ever happens between two people. And that the best thing is of no worldly worth struck us a beautiful paradox--and an endangered one. We therefore began fighting to defend the worthlessness of lovers everywhere in the only way we knew how: by vowing to remain as inseparable from each other, and as utterly useless to all opportunists, as the rest of our responsibilities would allow. ~ David James Duncan,
1455:Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed. ~ Aristotle,
1456:I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow,
1457:When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
1458:Something looked through my grandfather's eyes. It said Being an accountant, it's not the end of the world.

Something looked at my Uncle Danny. Something looked at my aunts and it said A secretary, is that so terrible?

Linda had seen four before her do something that was not so terrible and already there was something about them, their whole lives ahead of them and the best thing cut off, as if something that might have been a Heifetz had been walled up inside an accountant and left to die.

Doom. Doom. Doom. ~ Helen DeWitt,
1459:The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
1460:Looking back at Batman from a distance - after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned - it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman, but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns, which was a far superior effort. ~ James Berardinelli,
1461:fish tacos from a twelve-year-old boy and his mother. These tacos remained the best thing Delilah had ever eaten. The fish was snapper, caught in the early morning by the husband/father and marinated in oil, lime juice, garlic, and chiles, and then grilled on a hibachi that was attached to the cart. The grilled fish was wrapped in a handmade tortilla with fresh tomato, chopped iceberg, chunks of creamy avocado, crumbled white cheese that had no name other than queso, and the whole thing was drizzled with a tangy lime crema. The ~ Elin Hilderbrand,
1462:I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible. ~ Theresa Wayman,
1463:*What is the best or most worthwhile investment you’ve made? “The best thing I ever did, besides getting sober 25 years ago, was shelving my restaurant career in 2002, selling my shares in my restaurant, and working for free for a local radio station, magazine, and TV station in an effort to create my own media syllabus. I wanted to create a product with a massive platform, and try to make a difference in the world, and I couldn’t do it without becoming a 40-year-old intern, learning everything I needed, and rebooting my career. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
1464:Being with Josh is like being touched from the inside out. An unexpected blaze of sunshine on an otherwise bleak winter day. Wrapping your fingers around a mug of hot chocolate after walking home in that frigid lake-effect wind. A fire crackling softly beneath your outstretched hands. The perfect combination of cupcake and icing, the kind where you can’t quite identify all the secret ingredients, but you feel them melting together on your tongue, and you know that for as long you live, this will be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. ~ Sarah Ockler,
1465:poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how decisions actually get made, who gets to make them, and why those people decide to do what they do. This is the study of politics and political processes. Traditionally economics has ignored politics, but understanding politics is crucial for explaining world inequality. ~ Daron Acemo lu,
1466:It should be for satsang that we go to spiritual centers. By going there, people who are involved in the world can attain peace and concentration. The concentration gained when one goes there cannot be achieved if one sits at home. Even though the breeze blows everywhere, coolness will be felt more if we sit in the shade of a tree. In the same way, although God is all-pervading, this presence will clearly shine in certain places more than others. That is the greatness of satsang. Satsang is the best thing for spiritual advancement. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi,
1467:Luke, thank you. You’ve made it all so wonderful, so good. Hold me,” she said. “Let me fall asleep against you, in your arms.” He held her there, like that, stretched over his body, her head resting against his shoulder. She might weigh a hundred and ten pounds to his one-eighty, and she fit against his chest perfectly. He ran his hand down her back and over her soft bottom, stroking her, listening as her breathing evened out, as she sighed in her sleep. This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, he thought. I hope I don’t screw it up. ~ Robyn Carr,
1468:You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves. ~ Vince Vaughn,
1469:I don’t remember the whole thing, because it was very long, but Atticus recited it for me once, and there was a line that went like this: “Cry ham hock and let slip the hogs of war!” I know you might not agree, but for me that was the best thing Shakespeare ever wrote."

You mean, “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war” from Julius Caesar?

"No, I don’t think that’s it. There was ham in there; I’m sure he was talking about ham. They were going to battle hunger."

I think you might have been hungry when you heard it, Oberon. ~ Kevin Hearne,
1470:The more people I meet, the more cultures I start to embrace, the more people I open myself up to - it's a growing process I'm excited about. But it's also a challenge for me, to be at this level and still be able to connect with somebody who's living that everyday life. At first it was something I struggled with, because everything was moving so fast. I didn't know how to digest it. The best thing I did was go back to the city of Compton, to touch the people who I grew up with and tell them the stories of the people I met around the world. ~ Kendrick Lamar,
1471:If there ever were one moment where everything worked for us, where we lived in harmony and at ease with our natures, then we would still be there. There is no garden to return to, no idyllic perfect childhood, no enwombed state. The Garden of Eden was boring, childhood is a nightmare we should all be grateful to be done with, and your mother smoked while she was pregnant and poisoned you in the womb with artificial sugar substitutes. The best thing any of us can do is just to keep fucking up in a forward motion, and see what comes out of it. ~ Jessa Crispin,
1472:Thinking about what might happen if we ran completely out of money—laying off all the employees that I’d so carefully selected and hired, losing all my investors’ money, jeopardizing all the customers who trusted us with their business—made it difficult to concentrate on the possibilities. Marc Andreessen attempted to cheer me up with a not-so-funny-at-the-time joke: Marc: “Do you know the best thing about startups?” Ben: “What?” Marc: “You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both. ~ Ben Horowitz,
1473:It was the hardest thing I’d ever done, even harder than quitting drinking, showing up week after week, pushing so much out of my core, onto the pages in front of me. But it was the best thing I’d ever done, too. I wrote things down that I’d never told another living soul, and when I’d written enough I didn’t want to drink so much anymore. The book I was writing was one of the ugliest I’d ever seen, but also the most beautiful, because it was the only good thing I’d ever done in my life. It was the only proof I had that I could stand and fight. ~ Lauren Sapala,
1474:I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you ~ Annie Leibovitz,
1475:Pastor and radio broadcaster Tony Evans says, “If you want a better world, composed of better nations, inhabited by better states, filled with better counties, made up of better cities, comprised of better neighborhoods, illuminated by better churches, populated by better families, then you’ll have to start by becoming a better person.” That’s always where it starts—with me, with you. If we focus on personal character, we make the world a better place. If we do that our entire lives, we’ve done the best thing we can do to improve our world. The ~ John C Maxwell,
1476:Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly hate the advice to write first thing in the morning, but if you can manage it, it might well be the best thing you ever do for yourself. This book is about becoming a writer from the inside out. Many later advice manuals derive from it. You don't ­really need any others, though if you want to boost your confidence, "how to" books seldom do any harm. You can kick-start a whole book with some little writing exercise. ~ Hilary Mantel,
1477:Some people might laugh or roll their eyes and accuse me of tired cliches. But there it was-hot food in an empty stomach, water on a parched throat, that first glimpse of home just around the bend, or that first bite of something you thought you'd never have the courage to try, only to realize it was the best thing you'd ever tasted. That was what Finn's kiss was like. And in that moment, I realized I was starving and had been for a long time. I was starving. Hungry for companionship, affection, connection. And strangest of all, hungry for Finn Clyde. ~ Amy Harmon,
1478:Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path? ~ Caroline Myss,
1479:We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this century is aggressively acquire - and put aside - the richest natural reserves that we can, and then do our best to manage the needs and desires of the 11 billion people we expect to have by the end of the century. This is where biology is headed. For that reason, the sooner we get on with mapping biodiversity on Earth, the better off biology will be - not to mention the whole subject of saving it before we carelessly throw it away. ~ E O Wilson,
1480:Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. ~ Carol S Dweck,
1481:She was making the case that we should resist on principle, even though it might be futile. I had just begun trying to make the case for hope in writing, and I argued that you don’t know if your actions are futile; that you don’t have the memory of the future; that the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. They may unfold long after your death. That is when the words of so many writers often resonate most. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1482:I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that? ~ Brendan Fraser,
1483:On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1484:You will incur no sin by killing your kinsmen’ — this is said repeatedly in the Gita. If a person remains unconcerned with defeat or victory, knowing that they are a part of life, he commits no sin in fighting. But we should also say that he earns no merit. If we seek merit, we shall also incur sin. Even the best thing has an element of evil in it. Nothing in the world is wholly good or wholly evil. Where there is action there is some evil. If a person learns to make no distinction between gain and loss, pleasure and pain, he would rarely be tempted to commit a sin. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1485:I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life. ~ Terry Crews,
1486:The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better. ~ John C Maxwell,
1487:I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves. ~ Steve Jobs,
1488:A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
1489:I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life. ~ Rick Astley,
1490:My parents preached so much about Christianity and my mother thinks Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to the world - which he is - and God found a way of making examples for me. Like, just growing up, bullets would hit my partner but not me and I'd be right there. Or my Dad had a thing where he would make me play for the sorry team during football and make me go up against all my friends. It built a certain kind of character and a humble factor into me because I knew I had to work for it. And then to be able to beat them or be just as successful at so many things. ~ Cyhi the Prynce,
1491:Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too. ~ Daniel Handler,
1492:Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too. ~ Lemony Snicket,
1493:so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and strong when they are killing people,but I am knowing now that to be a soldier is only to be weak and not strong, and to have no food to eat and not to eat whatever you want, and also to have people making you do thing that you are not wanting to do and not to be doing whatever you are wanting which is what they are doing in movie. But I am only knowing this now because I am soldier now. ~ Uzodinma Iweala,
1494:There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence."
"They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid.
"Indeed."
"Does it work? Are they happier dead?"
"Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1495:Many people are too soft-hearted; they give encouragement to someone who needs discouragement instead. To encourage a powerless person to try harder is one of the worst things you could possibly do. The best thing you can do is to discourage him from believing that he can do it on his own. Another use of the law is to show a person that she is not living up to a standard. We will talk about the role of the truth and confrontation in chapter 17, but it is important to understand in this context that people will never get to the end of themselves if they do not see themselves as failing. ~ Henry Cloud,
1496:were superlatives. The product was “incredible,” he said, “the best thing we could have imagined.” He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen. Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board that would be nestled in the foot-cube box, he enthused, “I hope you get a chance to look at this a little later. It’s the most beautiful printed circuit board I’ve ever seen in my life.” He then showed how the computer could play speeches—he featured King’s “I Have a Dream” and Kennedy’s “Ask Not”—and send email with audio attachments. He leaned into the microphone on the computer ~ Walter Isaacson,
1497:The leaders of Nippon were stupid. They took all of the gold out of Tokyo and buried it in holes in the ground in the Philippines! Because they thought that The General would march into Tokyo and steal it. But The General didn’t care about the gold. He understood that the real gold is here—" he points to his head "—in the intelligence of the people, and here—" he holds out his hands "—in the work that they do. Getting rid of our gold was the best thing that ever happened to Nippon. It made us rich. Receiving that gold was the worst thing that happened to the Philippines. It made them poor. ~ Neal Stephenson,
1498:You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these characters are so great.' You put it aside for whatever reason, and you open it up a week later and the characters have turned to cardboard and the book has completely fallen apart," she says. "That's the moment of truth for every writer: Can I go on from here and make this book into something? I think it separates the writers from the nonwriters. And I think it's the reason a lot of people have that unfinished manuscript around the house, that albatross. ~ Jacqueline Woodson,
1499:And there are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.” “They kill themselves, you mean?” said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid. “Indeed.” “Does it work? Are they happier dead?” “Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.” “Sort of,” said Bod. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1500:Because she knew that something happened to you when your mother didn't hold you close, or tell you all the time that you were the best thing ever, or even notice when you were home: a little part of you sealed over. You didn't need her. You didn't need anyone. And without even knowing you were doing it, you waited. You waited for anyone who got close to you to see something they didn't like in you, something they hadn't initially seen, and to grow cold and disappear, too, like so much sea mist. Because there had to be something wrong, didn't there, if even your own mother didn't really love you? ~ Jojo Moyes,

IN CHAPTERS [104/104]



   62 Integral Yoga
   6 Poetry
   5 Philosophy
   4 Psychology
   4 Occultism
   2 Yoga
   2 Education
   2 Christianity
   1 Mysticism
   1 Hinduism
   1 Fiction
   1 Cybernetics


   46 The Mother
   17 Satprem
   13 Sri Aurobindo
   5 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   5 A B Purani
   4 Carl Jung
   3 Friedrich Nietzsche
   2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   2 Robert Browning
   2 Henry David Thoreau
   2 Aleister Crowley


   7 Letters On Yoga IV
   6 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   5 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   4 Questions And Answers 1955
   4 Agenda Vol 12
   3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   3 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   3 Some Answers From The Mother
   3 Questions And Answers 1954
   3 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   3 Letters On Yoga II
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   3 Agenda Vol 10
   2 Walden
   2 Talks
   2 Questions And Answers 1956
   2 Questions And Answers 1953
   2 On Education
   2 Liber ABA
   2 Browning - Poems
   2 Agenda Vol 11
   2 Agenda Vol 03


0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Well - the best thing you could do is not to listen to what
  people say; it would save you from many falls of consciousness.
  --
  So, the best thing to do is to abdicate at once and to get
  rest, peace and joy. When you have to get rid of an obstinate

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  elite. So the best thing to do is to set to work immediately. The
  rest is simply an excuse that our laziness gives to itself.

0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  ourselves for this manifestation. the best thing we can do is to
  study all he has told us, strive to follow his example and prepare

0 1959-05-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Only someone who loves you and has the knowledge can find the true solution to the problem. X1 fulfills these conditions excellently. Go to him and simply be what you are, without blackening nor embellishing, with the sincerity and simplicity of a child. He knows your soul and its aspiration; speak to him of your physical life and of your need for space, solitude, untamed nature, the simple and free life. He will understand and, in his wisdom, will see the best thing to do.
   And what he decides will be done.

0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother remains silent for a moment, then says:) Over the years I have had a considerable number of experiences in this realm, and my first action is always the same: send the Peace (I do this in all cases, for everyone) and apply the Force, the Power of the Lord, for the best thing to happen. Some people are very sick, sick to the point where there is no hope, where they cannot be cured, where the end is coming; but they sense that their souls must still need to have certain experiences, so they hang on-they dont want to die. In such cases I apply the Force for them to last as long as possible. In other cases, on the contrary, they are weary of suffering, or indeed the soul has finished its experience and desires to be liberated. In such a case, if I am sure of it, sure that they themselves are expressing the desire to depart, its over in a few hours I say this with certainty because Ive had a considerable number of experiences. There is a certain force which goes out and does what is necessary. I havent done either of these things for your fathernei ther to prolong his life (because when people are suffering its not very kind to prolong their lives indefinitely), nor to finish it, because I didnt knowone cant do either without knowing the persons conscious wish.
   As for your mother, she must have been thinking of me, for otherwise she wouldnt have come in that wayshe would have come through you (its different when things come through you). But she came to me directly, so I thought that for some reason she must have remembered me. I dont know. And I looked and said to myself (it came just like that), Now that she will be left all alone, why doesnt she come here? I havent done anything about that, either, one way or the other.

0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But this is still a period of preparation; the best thing to do now is to look and look and look again, observe and observe and observe again; and to have experiences, lots of experiences, because all that is nothing the thing ITSELF must be grasped. Weve got to catch the tail of the true functioning, so it can be substituted for the other at will. Thats it exactly.
   And that requires minute-to-minute observation.

0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I dont even say not to cremate people, because in AT LEAST ninety-nine cases out of a hundred its the best thing to do.
   The only solution is for people to grow wise, and theyre not wise. They accept a law, a principle, and then, having no wisdom, need to follow it blindly.

0 1964-08-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   the best thing is for them to translate for themselves. Thats the best way of reading; when you really want to understand a book, you should translate it.
   ***

0 1965-07-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   So tell him this: a biographical and bibliographical note in dictionary style that bludgeons you on the head thats the best thing (!)
   Announcing my book.

0 1966-06-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At that time I could have answered you in detail; now I dont exactly remember. But the best thing is, when you go to bed, a slight concentration with the will to remain conscious. Just that. A sort of aspiration to remain conscious.
   Yet I never go to sleep just anyhow, I always go to sleep after a meditation.

0 1967-08-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again the light and the sunshine. the best thing in these cases is, if one can manage it, not to fret, not to despond, but to insist quietly and keep oneself open, spread to the Light and waiting in faith for it to come: that, I have found, shortens these ordeals.
   Sri Aurobindo

0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its not a feeling, its an experience! You know, I wouldnt like anything better than In fact, this is my constant impression! Do as best you can, and the best thing needed will happen, thats all. But there is such an awareness of the uncertainty of the effect of things, and of this complexity It all becomes so mixed and so confused that
   All of life is like that. CIRCUMSTANCES are like that, I am beginning to see that, its beginning to emerge like that, to show itself: honest people look like scoundrels, and scoundrels look like I dont know what.

0 1969-02-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But more and moremore and more the body has been learning that what happens (what happens every second) is the best thing that can happen given the general condition. Its entirely convinced of that. And its content to do like this (gesture of self-abandon) and say, Let Your Will be done. Thats all. If it can do that in a very continuous and peaceful way, then things are fine. Its only when it tries to find out why and how and then things go wrong. It has to be like this (same gesture of self-abandon): Let Your Will be done. Then its all right. It doesnt ask to know, only theres the old habit.
   At the critical moment (there are critical moments), at the critical moment, this surrender (its even more than surrender, its a complete abdication of everything, of its existence and everything) is filled with light and force. Thats the Response.

0 1969-09-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its because for everyone, what happens is the best thing to lead his individuality towards the goal the goal of consciousness and if he has faith, the action takes place in an even more precise way, and, we might say, even more rapidly. So in this case, it would mean that his paralysis helps him go faster towards his goal.
   (A.R.:) Thank you.

0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Oh, no, no, theyll be in a tizzy. The Pressure is the best thing. Because they dont understand what you think, they dont understand what you say: they understand what they have inside their heads. They change the meaning of the words. Like what happened with A.R.,2 remember how he took it as a personal attack.
   Yes, thats true! Thats true, I noticed it: they take it as a personal attack.

0 1970-09-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yet, from the external standpoint, the doctor said that the best thing is to do something, some work; for instance, to signs photos, things like that, a mechanical work.
   But its its disgusting.

0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, I know. I know. Forget it, wont you? Thats the best thing to do. It is a part of the being that must disappearits not you.
   I know its not me, Mother. But it tried very hard to strike me.

0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   the best thing is to have two statues: one in public and one in the house.
   All right, Mother.

0 1971-11-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes (gesture of surrender, hands open), thats the best thing to do.
   Oh, its so strong!

0 1971-12-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Even when you fall flat on your faceits the best thing that could have happened to you.
   Always?

06.01 - The End of a Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Look at the individual. Why is there in him the life-urge to persist, to endure, to survive? If life had no other meaning than mere living, then the best thing would have been to drop the body as soon as it is badly damaged or incapacitated, through illness, accident or old age. Instead, why this attempt to prolong it, to refuse to accept the present difficulties and disadvantages? The reason is that life requires time to grow in consciousness, to acquire experiences, to assimilate and utilise them so as to transform them into powers of being, time, that is to say, to build and forge the instrument so that it may house the higher consciousness and existence. In the present make-up, the body, at a certain stage has to be given up; for the frame becomes too rigid and stiff to keep pace with the growing and fast moving inner consciousness. The thread is taken up again in another life; but there is always a considerable reduplication in this natural process, one has to repeat the stage of babyhood and immaturity, a retempering of the instrument till it is capable of newer uses. True, some-thing of the experiences, their essence, is stored up somewhere in the depth of the being; but it is not utilised fully, it is not an effective element in the normal consciousness. And although one always bases oneself upon one's past, the edifice constructed seems new every time. Yoga in the individual seeks to eliminate this element of repetition and unconsciousness and delay in the process of growth and evolution: its aim is to complete the cycle of individual growth in a single life.
   Now the same principle can be extended to the wider collective development. Civilisation has reached a status today when the next higher status can be and must be at-tempted. Man has risen to a considerable height in the mental sphere; the time and occasion are now here to step beyond into the supramental, the dynamically spiritual. Dangers are ahead, even around and close: all the forces of the infra-human, the submerged urges of animal atavism are pushing and pulling man down to a regression, to a reversion to type. The choice is indeed crucial. If the civilisation is to perish, it means mankind has to start over again its life course, begin, that is to say, at the baby stage, once more to go through the slow process of centuries to acquire the mastery that has been attained in the physical, the vital and the mental domains. Already there have been such lost periods in man's evolution now submerged in his consciousness and their gains are being with difficulty recovered. But a landslide at this critical hour will be a colossal catastrophehumanly speaking, something almost irremediable.

06.03 - Types of Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The last process gives us the clue to the fourth type of meditation the type, in fact, which is recommended for us, both because it is the easiestfollowing as it does the line of least resistance, also because it gives the fullness of the result demanded. Instead of trying to manipulate the mental force with one's personal will and effort, instead of seeking to control and comm and the consciousness, the best thing to do would be to remain quiet as far as it is normally possible for one without struggle and then turn the gaze to the other side, deep inward or high upward, become more conscious of the light, the Will that brought you to this Path, to be alive with the secret delight, the flaming aspiration that is there within you behind all the turbid turmoil of the surface life and consciousness. This Presence and Guidance will of itself place before you the elements and movements that are to be rejected and those that are to be accepted and given your sincere assent those that help you in doing the necessary gesture. Indeed, if you do not resist too much, it will throw out what is to be thrown out and bring in what is to be brought in. That is how the instrument will be cleansed and refined. Silence will be put in, for that is the basis; but not silence alone, for it will be unified with a new dynamism expressing the Divine's Willpersonal choice there will be none, neither for absolute quietude nor for mere activity.
   ***

07.05 - This Mystery of Existence, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Have you ever asked yourself why there is this universe at all, at least this earth with which we are so much concerned and which seems to us so real, so au thentic? It would perhaps be very wise on your part if you did not! I have often spoken to you of Theon. He was truly a sage in his own way. People used to come to him and ask questions. Many asked why there was a universe. He would answer, But what is that to you? Some would ask, Why is the universe like this? To that ht would say, It is what it is, how does it matter? Others again would remark, I do not consider the world a satisfactory affair. There, we begin to come more to the point. To those who find the world unsatisfactory I would say, Get to work, try to change it. Find a way that it may be otherwise, that it may be made better. Things are what they are, it is no use speculating over that and getting worried. Seek for the means of remedy, so that things may be made what they should be. Why are things what they are? Not that one cannot know the reason, although one may not always be sure of it. the best thing to do is to take whatever is as it is and try to change it towards that which it ought to be. Now the wonder of it is that if you are sincere, if you want to know sincerely and work sincerely, you will come to know why things are what they are the cause, the origin and the process, for they are all one. There is one truth at the base of things; if that were not there, nothing would be. If you seize that truth, you seize at the same time the origin of the creation and the means of changing it as well. In other words, if you are in contact with the Divine for the Divine is that baseyou are in possession of the key to all things, you know the why, the how and the process for change. One thing to do then is to start doing the thing. But you might say, it is too much, too difficult, too big for youto work in the world or for the world. Well then, start with yourself. You are a little mass of substance, a symbol or representative of the universe. Let your work then be to form and refashion that particle. Concentrate upon it, go withineven within that little person of yourself you will find the long looked-for key.
   ***

08.33 - Opening to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You are to open yourself to the Divine and receive Him. Usually you open yourself in all directions to everything and everybody in the world. You open your surface being and receive there all sorts of influences from all quarters. So inside you there-comes about what we can call a hotch-potch of all contrary and contradictory movements: and that creates difficulties without number. Now instead of that, live away from the surface, from the outside and open up to the Divine and receive nothing hut the Divine force. If you can do that all difficulties practically disappear. But, of course, the trouble is there. Unless one is alchemically conditioned, it is an impossibility to have relations with people, to talk to them, to deal with them, have interchanges with them and yet not absorb something out of them. If one can surround oneself with an atmosphere that acts as a filter, then all that come from outside are checked and sifted before they reach you or touch you. That needs a good training and a large experience. That is why people in ancient days who wanted an easier path took to solitude, into the depths of the forest, on the top of a hill or under a cave so that they might not have to deal with people for that naturally reduces undesirable interchanges. Only, it has also been found that such people begin to take an enormous interest in the life of animals and plants instead of men: for it is indeed difficult to do without interchange with something or other. So the best thing would be to face the problem squarely, to clo the yourself with an atmosphere totally concentrated on the Divine so that whatever passes across is filtered in its passage. And further, there is the question of food. The body is obliged to take in foreign matter in order to subsist, it would therefore absorb at the same time a fair quantity of inert and unconscious forces or that of some not very desirable consciousness. I once spoke to you of the consciousness that one absorbs with food, there is also unconsciousness that one absorbs in the same way. That is why in many systems of Yoga you are advised to offer first to the Divine your food and then eat it: it means calling down the Divine into your food before absorbing it. Offering means putting in contact: the food is put in contact with type Divine, i.e. put under His influence. This is a very good, a very useful procedure; if you knew how to do it, it would diminish very much the labour of the inner transformation that one has to do. For in the world we live in solidarity with all others. You cannot take in a single breath of air without absorbing the vibrations, the numberless vibrations that come from all kinds of movements and all kinds of people. So if you want to keep yourself intact, you must, as I have said, maintain yourself in the condition of a filter allowing nothing undesirable to enter. Or put on a mask as one does when crossing an infected and poisoned locality, or do something similar.
   One must have around oneself an atmosphere so condensed, condensed in a spirit of total surrender, that nothing can enter without being automatically filtered. There are wicked thoughts, evil will about you, harmful formations sent out by bad people. The air pullulates with these: dark noisome bacilli. It is so troublesome to be always on the look-out, at every step to be on one's guard, to move slowly with care and caution and precautions; even then one is not sure. But if you cover yourself with the cloak of light, the light of a happy, sincere surrender, and aspiration, that is a wonderful filter, that gives you automatic protection. The undesirable forces not only cannot enter, they are thrown back upon their originator, the attackers themselves become their own victims.

1.00b - INTRODUCTION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  astrolabe of Gods mysteries. If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing
  one can do, in the field of metaphysics, is to study the works of those who were, and

1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question.
  Our original difficulty will be due to the enormous wealth of our material. To enter into a critical examination of all systems would be an unending task; the cloud of witnesses is too great. Now each religion is equally positive; and each demands faith. This we refuse in the absence of positive proof. But we may usefully inquire whether there is not any one thing upon which all religions have agreed: for, if so, it seems possible that it may be worthy of really thorough consideration.

1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  system. In such cases the best thing the doctor can do is lay aside his whole
  apparatus of methods and theories and trust to luck that his personality will

1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
   time. The attempt will most likely fail hundreds and hundreds of times. It is just a question of not losing patience. After many attempts you will succeed in experiencing a feeling In your soul corresponding to the state of soul of the person observed, and you will begin to notice that through this feeling a power grows in your soul that leads to spiritual insight into the state of soul of the other. A picture experienced as luminous appears in your field of vision. This spiritually luminous picture is the so-called astral embodiment of the desire observed in that soul. Again the impression of this picture may be described as flame-like, yellowish-red in the center, and reddish-blue or lilac at the edges. Much depends on treating such spiritual experiences with great delicacy. the best thing is not to speak to anyone about them except to your teacher, if you have one. Attempted descriptions of such experiences in inappropriate words usually only lead to gross self-deception. Ordinary terms are employed which are not intended for such things, and are therefore too gross and clumsy. The consequence is that in the attempt to clo the the experience in words we are misled into blending the actual experience
   p. 71

1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of king Tching-thang to this effect: Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages. I was as much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door and windows open, as I could be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame. It was Homers requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly-acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells, and a fragrance filling the airto a higher life than we fell asleep from; and thus the darkness bear its fruit, and prove itself to be good, no less than the light. That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make. All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, All intelligences awake with the morning. Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
  Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome with drowsiness, they would have performed something.

1.03 - A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
  "What I was going to say," said the Dodo in an offended tone, "is that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race."
  "What _is_ a Caucus-race?" said Alice.

1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   If the movement is rooted in the physical mind the best thing is not to give it any importance. The physical is very obstinate; whereas a movement that takes place in the vital or the mental is very subtle and creates new forms. These difficulties persist to the very end. You must clearly distinguish between various movements in the lower being. We do not want to leave out in our Yoga the common and even the petty things.
   4 AUGUST 1924

1.03 - Reading, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college-bred and so called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics; and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts any where made to become acquainted with them. I know a woodchopper, of middle age, who takes a French paper, not for news as he says, for he is above that, but to keep himself in practice, he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he can do in this world, he says, beside this, to keep up and add to his English. This is about as much as the college bred generally do or aspire to do, and they take an English paper for the purpose. One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best
  English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it? Or suppose he comes from reading a Greek or Latin classic in the original, whose praises are familiar even to the so called illiterate; he will find nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it. Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader; and as for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews have had a scripture. A man, any man, will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of;and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and class-books, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

1.04 - Of other imperfections which these beginners are apt to have with respect to the third sin, which is luxury., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
   though in reality there is little that needs to be added to the Saint's clear and apt exposition. It will be remembered that St. Teresa once wrote to her brother Lorenzo, who suffered in this way: 'As to those stirrings of sense. . . . I am quite clear they are of no account, so the best thing is to make no account of them' (LL. 168). The most effective means of calming souls tormented by these favours is to commend them to a discreet and wise director whose counsel they may safely follow. The Illuminists committed the grossest errors in dealing with this matter.]
  8. When the soul enters the dark night, it brings these kinds of love under control. It streng thens and purifies the one, namely that which is according to God; and the other it removes and brings to an end; and in the beginning it causes both to be lost sight of, as we shall say hereafter.

1.06 - Dhyana and Samadhi, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  This, in short, is the idea of Samadhi. What is its application? The application is here. The field of reason, or of the conscious workings of the mind, is narrow and limited. There is a little circle within which human reason must move. It cannot go beyond. Every attempt to go beyond is impossible, yet it is beyond this circle of reason that there lies all that humanity holds most dear. All these questions, whether there is an immortal soul, whether there is a God, whether there is any supreme intelligence guiding this universe or not, are beyond the field of reason. Reason can never answer these questions. What does reason say? It says, "I am agnostic; I do not know either yea or nay." Yet these questions are so important to us. Without a proper answer to them, human life will be purposeless. All our ethical theories, all our moral attitudes, all that is good and great in human nature, have been moulded upon answers that have come from beyond the circle. It is very important, therefore, that we should have answers to these questions. If life is only a short play, if the universe is only a "fortuitous combination of atoms," then why should I do good to another? Why should there be mercy, justice, or fellow-feeling? the best thing for this world would be to make hay while the sun shines, each man for himself. If there is no hope, why should I love my brother, and not cut his throat? If there is nothing beyond, if there is no freedom, but only rigorous dead laws, I should only try to make myself happy here. You will find people saying nowadays that they have utilitarian grounds as the basis of morality. What is this basis? Procuring the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest number. Why should I do this? Why should I not produce the greatest unhappiness to the greatest number, if that serves my purpose? How will utilitarians answer this question? How do you know what is right, or what is wrong? I am impelled by my desire for happiness, and I fulfil it, and it is in my nature; I know nothing beyond. I have these desires, and must fulfil them; why should you complain? Whence come all these truths about human life, about morality, about the immortal soul, about God, about love and sympathy, about being good, and, above all, about being unselfish?
  All ethics, all human action and all human thought, hang upon this one idea of unselfishness. The whole idea of human life can be put into that one word, unselfishness. Why should we be unselfish? Where is the necessity, the force, the power, of my being unselfish? You call yourself a rational man, a utilitarian; but if you do not show me a reason for utility, I say you are irrational. Show me the reason why I should not be selfish. To ask one to be unselfish may be good as poetry, but poetry is not reason. Show me a reason. Why shall I be unselfish, and why be good? Because Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so say so does not weigh with me. Where is the utility of my being unselfish? My utility is to be selfish if utility means the greatest amount of happiness. What is the answer? The utilitarian can never give it. The answer is that this world is only one drop in an infinite ocean, one link in an infinite chain. Where did those that preached unselfishness, and taught it to the human race, get this idea? We know it is not instinctive; the animals, which have instinct, do not know it. Neither is it reason; reason does not know anything about these ideas. Whence then did they come?

1.070 - The Seven Stages of Perfection, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The first stage is supposed to be the detection of the defect in the objects or things: there is something wrong with things, and they are not as they appear to be. This is the first awareness that arises in a person. Things are not what they seem, as the poet said. Even the best things are not really what they are. They appear to be best under certain conditions. The valuable things, the worthy things, the virtuous things, the beautiful things all these are conditionally valid, and they are not valid in their essence. That the objects of sense, the things of the world, are constituted of a nature essentially different from what they appear to the senses and the mind is an awareness that arises in the discriminating, and not in all people. Crass perception takes the world for granted, and people run after things as moths run to fire, not knowing that it is their destruction. The awareness arises, pointing out that there is some mystery behind things which is quite different from the colour and the shape of things visible to the senses that there is pain in this world, and it is not pleasure. Pain is rooted behind the so-called pleasure of the world. Sorrow is to follow all the joys of the world, one day or the other. The first step is the awareness or discovery that pain is present and it cannot be avoided under any circumstance as long as things continue to be in the present set-up.
  The second stage is the discovery that there is a cause of this pain, that it has not come suddenly from the blue. How has this pain come this suffering, this sorrow? What is the reason for this defect behind everything? There is a reason. Without a cause, there is no effect. The discovery of the cause of this troublesome situation is the second stage of knowledge. That is a greater control that we gain over our situation. When we know that there is some trouble, and we do not know how the trouble has arisen, we are in a difficulty. But the difficulty is a little bit ameliorated when the cause of it is known, because we feel a confidence that, after all, this is the cause, and we shall try to tackle it. So, in the second stage of awareness there is a recognition of the causal background of the troubles of life, the pains of experience.

1.07 - Cybernetics and Psychopathology, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  cle. This does not prevent its being in many cases the best thing
  we can do at present.

1.08 - Psycho therapy Today, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  and the best thing would be to bring out of the lumber-rooms of the past all
  the methods that have ever been devised to prevent man from becoming

1.12 - ON THE FLIES OF THE MARKETPLACE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  In the world even the best things amount to nothing
  without someone to make a show of them: great men

1.1.4 - The Physical Mind and Sadhana, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  These small movements [such as useless talking] are the most difficult of all to change owing to their very smallness and the habit of frequent indulgence as natural and trifling everyday movements of life. the best thing to do is to mass the force and light and peace in the mind and higher vital until they can occupy the physical mind even then through the physical mind, which usually supports more or less these movements, they can be worked on with more success.
  ***

1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  D.: What is the best thing to do for ensuring the future?
  M.: Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  D.: What is the best thing to do for ensuring the future?
  M.: Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

1.38 - Treats of the great need which we have to beseech the Eternal Father to grant us what we ask in these words: Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Explains certain temptations. This chapter is noteworthy., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
  can we do about it, sisters? To me the best thing seems to be what our Master teaches us: to pray,
  and to beseech the Eternal Father not to allow us to fall into temptation.

1.4.02 - The Divine Force, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Always keep in touch with the Divine Force. the best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine
  Force and the lower energies will begin to act for themselves and all go into confusion and a wrong movement.

15.04 - The Mother Abides, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Meanwhile, I think the best thing to do would be to remain quiet with a serene trust, with all the aspiration of our soul, our soul which is the concrete presence of Mother Herself in us which we carry within us always.1
   This comment was made in French as it was a French class; the original in French is given below: J'ai beaucoup hsit, n'est-ce pas, de vous lire a. D'un cot c'estbien, mais parce que.... En fait c'est une prsentation mentale et intellectuelle d'un phnomene quidpasse toute proportion menta Ie et intellectuelle. Ce phnomne est non seulement extra-intellectuel, supra-mental mais aussi supra-cosmique dont Ie gens et la portee se dvoilera au cours du temps. En attendant je craig Ie mieu'x serait de rester tranquille avec une confiance seraine, avec toute l'aspiration de nacre me, l'me qui est la prsence concrte de Mre Elle-mme en nous que nous portons toujours.

1914 02 11p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   From the standpoint of the eternal work, the one thing important is to become conscious of Thee, to identify oneself with Thee and to maintain that conscious identification constantly. But as to what best use can be made of our physical organism, Thy mode of manifestation upon earth, it is quite enough, when Thou alone art conscious within us, to turn the gaze to the body in order to know beyond all doubt what is the best thing it can do, what activity will most fully utilise all its energies.
   And without attaching much importance to that activity, that altogether relative utilisation, one can take without any difficulty, any inner debate, decisions which, to the outer consciousness appear the boldest and most dangerous.

1929-04-21 - Visions, seeing and interpretation - Dreams and dreaml and - Dreamless sleep - Visions and formulation - Surrender, passive and of the will - Meditation and progress - Entering the spiritual life, a plunge into the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Now the clue to the meaning of the vision lies in the image of the six horses. Horses are symbols of power and the number six represents divine creation; so the six horses signify the powers of divine creation. The coach stands for realisation, for the thing that has to be realised, achieved, brought up to the summit, to the height where dwells the Light. Although these powers of creation are divine, it is a hard labour even for them to consummate the realisation; for they have to work against heavy odds, against the whole downward pull of nature. Then comes in the human being in his arrogance and ignorance, with his small fund of mental powers and thinks that he is somebody and can do something. the best thing he can do is to step inside the coach, sit down comfortably and let the horses carry him.
  Dreams are quite a different thing. They are more difficult to interpret, since each person has his own world of dream-imagery peculiar to himself. Of course, there are dreams that do not signify much, those that are connected with the most superficial and physical layer of consciousness, those that are the result of stray thoughts, random impressions, mechanical reactions or reflex activities. These have no regular or organised form and shape and meaning; they are hardly remembered and leave almost no trace in the consciousness. But even dreams that have a somewhat deeper origin are still obscure, since they are peculiarly personal, in this sense that they depend for their make-up almost entirely upon the experiences and idiosyncrasies of the individual. Visions also are made up of symbols that do not necessarily obtain universal currency. The symbols vary according to race and tradition and religion. One symbol may be peculiarly Christian, another peculiarly Hindu, a third may be common to all the East and a fourth only to the West. Dreams, on the other hand, are exclusively personal; they depend upon everyday occurrences and impressions. It is exceedingly difficult for one man to explain or interpret anothers dream. Each man is like a closed circle to every other man. But everyone can study for himself his own dreams, unravel them and find out their meaning.

1951-02-17 - False visions - Offering ones will - Equilibrium - progress - maturity - Ardent self-giving- perfecting the instrument - Difficulties, a help in total realisation - paradoxes - Sincerity - spontaneous meditation, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And it is there we have the solution of the problem. You can at every minute make the gift of your will in an aspiration and an aspiration which formulates itself very simply, not just Lord, Thy will be done, but Grant that I may do as well as I can the best thing to do.
   You may not know at every moment what is the best thing to do or how to do it, but you can place your will at the disposal of the Divine to do the best possible, the best thing possible. You will see it will have marvellous results. Do this with consciousness, sincerity and perseverance, and you will find yourself getting along with gigantic strides. It is like that, isnt it? One must do things with all the ardour of ones soul, with all the strength of ones will; do at every moment the best possible, the best thing possible. What others do is not your concernthis is something I shall never be able to repeat to you often enough.
   Never say, So-and-so does not do this, So-and-so does something else, That one does what he should not doall this is not your concern. You have been put upon earth, in a physical body, with a definite aim, which is to make this body as conscious as possible, make it the most perfect and most conscious instrument of the Divine. He has given you a certain amount of substance and of matter in all the domainsmental, vital and physicalin proportion to what He expects from you, and all the circumstances around you are also in proportion to what He expects of you, and those who tell you, My life is terrible, I lead the most miserable life in the world, are donkeys! Everyone has a life appropriate to his total development, everyone has experiences which help him in his total development, and everyone has difficulties which help him in his total realisation.
  --
   When I told you just a while ago that you must aspire with a great ardour to do the best possible, at every moment the best thing possible, you could have asked me, That is all very well. But how to know? Well, it is not necessary to know! If you take this attitude with sincerity, you will know at each moment what you have to do, and it is this which is so wonderful! According to your sincerity, the inspiration is more and more precise, more and more exact.
   Only you must remember that to surrender is to accept whatever is the result of your action, though the result may be quite different from what you expect. On the other hand, if your surrender is passive, you will do nothing and try nothing; you will simply go to sleep and wait for a miracle.

1951-04-05 - Illusion and interest in action - The action of the divine Grace and the ego - Concentration, aspiration, will, inner silence - Value of a story or a language - Truth - diversity in the world, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The cause is the light which has become the darkness and the consciousness which has become the inconscience! How to speak about these things? You may call this an accident if you like, if that satisfies your mind. It was perhaps, after all, the best thing that could have happened, one cant tell. All depends upon the point of view one takes. There must certainly be a consciousness in which this was foreseen, and if it has not been avoided, it means that it forms part of the programme! It is a human way of looking at the problem, for things do not happen quite like that in those regions. One may also relate a story which could make a subject, a magnificent drama, but it would be only a story, a way of saying things.
   A story is of value only to the extent it can help you to understand things. Ah! Here is an interesting subject. A story, that is, a way of saying things, is of value only if it can make you understand the thing. A language (which is a kind of story) is of value only to the extent it is capable of putting you in contact with the Reality. Science is a language, Art is a languageall activity is a sort of language, that is, a way of expression.And the way of expression is of value only in as far as it puts you in contact with what it wants to express. It is a very interesting generalisation, for you can bring into it all the categories you want and you will see that it is true.
   It is the same for everything. The way of approaching the universe and the universal truth is also a language and all depends upon the person who uses it, the person to whom the understanding is to be communicated. Whatever may be the way of telling, if you understand, that is all that is necessary. If you do not understand, even if it be the wonder of wonders, the truth of truths, it will have no value for you. This is an essentially pragmatic point of view of the universe; things have value only in so far as they realise that for which they have been made, and the most beautiful philosophies of the world are of no use to those who do not understand them. The most beautiful works of art in the world are quite useless to those whom they do not put on the path of the Truth. And the most perfect yoga in the world is useless to those whom it does not lead to the Realisation. And if you have this sense of relativity, you have finished with all dogmatism, all sectarianism, all that kind of absolutism which leads one always to think that all that has done us good is the truthit is the truth for us, it is not necessarily the truth for our neighbour. And what our neighbour thinks is the truth for him, and when you say, It is idiotic, it is quite useless, if it helps him to realise the truth, it is excellent, it is the best thing possible for him. And everything, everything on earth is like that. And if you do not want to be altogether narrow, to put on visors and not see farther than the tip of your nose, you must first of all understand this. You must understand that all things in the universe tend towards a goal and that it is to the extent they help to realise this goal that they have a value, and that this value is quite relative; and what is good for one may not be so for another, what is good at one moment may not be so at another and, consequently, every kind of dogmatism is an absurdity.
   It is very easy to say, That, thats true, now I know that it is true and I shall not think otherwise; this is very easy, and in fact something has suddenly put you in touch with a light, you have had an experience, you have become conscious of yourself, conscious of something which transcends you and is the reality of your being, so for you it is perfect. But do not imagine that you must go from door to door, from city to city, country to country, telling people, I proclaim the Truth, because what is true for you may not be at all good for another. What you have seen has its truth in itselfeverything has its truth in itself but the true raison dtre of this truth is that it has helped you to find yourself, to find the truth of your being, and it may quite possibly not help your neighbour, unless you have a considerable power of persuasion and oblige him to see things as you have seen them yourself, but this is not tremendously valuable.

1951-04-28 - Personal effort - tamas, laziness - Static and dynamic power - Stupidity - psychic and intelligence - Philosophies- different languages - Theories of Creation - Surrender of ones being and ones work, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The most important surrender is the surrender of your character, your way of being, so that it may change. If you do not surrender your very own nature, never will this nature change. It is this that is most important. You have certain ways of understanding, certain ways of reacting, certain ways of feeling, almost certain ways of progressing, and above all, a special way of looking at life and expecting from it certain thingswell, it is this you must surrender. That is, if you truly want to receive the divine Light and transform yourself, it is your whole way of being you must offeroffer by opening it, making it as receptive as possible so that the divine Consciousness which sees how you ought to be, may act directly and change all these movements into movements more true, more in keeping with your real truth. This is infinitely more important than surrendering what one does. It is not what one does (what one does is very important, thats evident) that is the most important thing but what one is. Whatever the activity, it is not quite the way of doing it but the state of consciousness in which it is done that is important. You may work, do disinterested work without any idea of personal profit, work for the joy of working, but if you are not at the same time ready to leave this work, to change the work or change the way of working, if you cling to your own way of working, your surrender is not complete. You must come to a point when everything is done because you feel within, very clearly, in a more and more imperious way, that it is this which must be done and in this particular way, and that you do it only because of that. You do not do it because of any habit, attachment or preference, nor even any conception, even a preference for the idea that it is the best thing to doelse your surrender is not total. As long as you cling to something, as long as there is something in you which says, This may change, that may change, but that, that will not change, as long as you say about anything at all, That will not change (not that it refuses to change, but because you cant think of its changing), your surrender is not complete.
   It goes without saying that if in your action, your work, you have in the least this feeling, I am doing it because I have been told to do it, and there is not a total adherence of the being, and you do not do the work because you feel it must be done and you love doing it; if something holds back, stands apart, separate, I was told it had to be done like that so I did it like that, it means there is a great gulf between you and surrender. True surrender is to feel that one wants, one has, this complete inner adherence: you cannot do but that, that which you have been given to do, and what you have not been given to do you cannot do. But at another moment the work may change; at any moment it may be something else, if it is decided that it be something else. It is there that plasticity comes in. That makes a very great difference. It is well understood that those who work are told, Yes, work, that is your way of surrendering, but it is a beginning. This way has to be progressive. It is only a beginning, do you understand?

1953-04-08, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If you really want to do something good, the best thing you can do is to win your small victories in all sincerity, one after another, and thus you will do for the world the maximum you are able to.
   Will our victory act for the whole world?

1953-10-14, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   How can one know whether one is capable of doing it or not! By trying. Thats the best thing. And if you do not succeed immediately, persevere. And you must know that if a strong urge, a very strong urge to do something comes to you, that means this work has something to do with you and you are capable of doing it. But one can have powers which are so well hidden that one has to dig long before finding them. So you must not get discouraged at the first setback, you must persist.
   "If the Divine who is all love be the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils abounding upon earth?"

1954-07-28 - Money - Ego and individuality - The shadow, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But this is a rare thing It can be done, but it is rare. Usually, the best thing is to say, No, this is not I! I dont want it! I have nothing to do with this movement, it doesnt exist for me, it is something contrary to my nature! And so, by dint of insisting and driving it away, finally one separates oneself from it.
  But one must first be clear and sincere enough to see the conflict within oneself. Usually one doesnt pay any attention to these things. One goes from one extreme to the other. You see, you can say, to put it in very simple words: one day I am good, the next day I am bad. And this seems quite natural Or even, sometimes for one hour you are good and the next hour you are wicked; or else, sometimes the whole day through one is good and suddenly one becomes wicked, for a minute very wicked, all the more wicked as one was good! Only, one doesnt observe it, thoughts cross ones mind, violent, bad, hateful things, like that Usually one pays no attention to it. But this is what must be caught! As soon as it manifests, you must catch it like this (Mother makes a movement) with a very firm grip, and then hold it, hold it up to the light and say, No! Idontwantyou! I dont want you! I have nothing to do with this! You are going to get out of here, and you wont return!

1954-12-08 - Cosmic consciousness - Clutching - The central will of the being - Knowledge by identity, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  You have never tried to enter another persons consciousness to know exactly what is going on there? Not projecting your consciousness into someone else, because then you find yourself inside him and this is not interesting but entering into relation with his consciousness which is within him, for example when, for one reason or another, you dont see things eye to eye; one sees them in one way, the other in another. If people are reasonable they do not quarrel. But if they are not reasonable, they begin quarrelling. Then, instead of quarrelling, the best thing to do is to enter into the others consciousness and ask yourself why he says things like that, what is it that pushes him to do this or say that? What is the inner reason, what is his vision of things which makes him take this attitude? It is extremely interesting. If you do this, immediately you stop being angry. First thing: you can no longer be angry. So this is already a great gain. But also, if the other continues being angry, it has no effect on you.
  And then, later, one can try to identify oneself more perfectly and prevent the movements of division and deformation and stop quarrels. Very useful.

1954-12-22 - Possession by hostile forces - Purity and morality - Faith in the final success -Drawing back from the path, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I could tell you many more things, but it will come gradually. In any case, if you can keep within yourself a confidence, a candid trust which does not argue, and the see of yes, it is truly a kind of trust that what is done for you, in spite of all appearances, is always the best thing to lead you in the quickest way possible out of all your difficulties and towards the goal if you can keep that strong in you, well, your path will become tremendously easier.
  You will tell me that it is very difficult to keep it, but children keep it very well. They must have truly come upon particularly detestable parents to lose it; but if their parents are simply good enough, they keep this very well. Well, it is this attitude; if you can tell yourself, Good, perhaps the divine Grace deserves our confidence, simply this, nothing else, you will avoid many difficulties, many. In fact this avoids many difficulties even in ordinary life, and many worries. And particularly here, if you can do that, well, you will see things which seemed formidably difficult dissolving suddenly like clouds.

1955-02-16 - Losing something given by Mother - Using things well - Sadhak collecting soap-pieces - What things are truly indispensable - Natures harmonious arrangement - Riches a curse, philanthropy - Misuse of things creates misery, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  For I think that it is the best things which become the worst. Perhaps the worst also can become the best. Some people also say that it is the worst men who become the best. I hope the best dont become the worst, for that indeed would be sad.
  But still, certainly, the greatest power, if badly used, can be a very great calamity; whereas this same very great power if well utilised can be a blessing. All depends on the use thats made of things. Each thing in the world has its place, its work, a real use; and if used for something else it creates a disorder, confusion, chaos. And thats because in the world as it is, very few things are utilised for their true work, very few things are really in their place, and it is because the world is in a frightful chaos that there is all this misery and suffering. If each thing was in its place, in a harmonious balance, the whole world could progress without needing to be in the state of misery and suffering in which it is. There!

1955-02-23 - On the sense of taste, educating the senses - Fasting produces a state of receptivity, drawing energy - The body and food, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  This is the surest result: if one doesn't eat one grows thin; so if one is too fat and wants to grow thin, it is a good means. But on condition that one doesn't pass the day thinking of food, because then, as soon as one stops his fast, he dashes for it and eats so much that he gets back all that he has lost. In fact, the best thing is not to think about it but to regulate one's life automatically enough not to need to think of eating. You eat at fixed hours, eat reasonably, you don't even need to think of the food when you are taking it; you must eat calmly, that's all, quietly, with concentration, and when you do not eat you must never think about it. You must not eat too much, because then you will have to think about your digestion, and it will be very unpleasant for you and will make you waste much time. You must eat just... you must put an end to all desire, all attraction, all movements of the vital, because when you eat simply because the body needs to eat, the body will tell you absolutely precisely and exactly when it has had enough; you see, when one is not moved by a vital desire or mental ideas, one grasps this with surety. "Now it is enough," says the body, "I don't want any more." So one stops. As soon as one has ideas or else desires in the vital, and there is, for instance, something that you like particularly, because you like it particularly you eat three times too much of it... In fact, this may cure you to a certain extent, because if you don't have a very strong stomach, you get indigestion, and then after that you have a disgust for the thing which has given you indigestion. Still, these are rather drastic means. One can make progress without having recourse to such means. The best is not to think about it.
  Of course there are people who prepare food for themselves and for others, and who are obliged to think about it, but just a very little. One can prepare food while thinking about more interesting things. But in any case, the less one thinks about it the better; and when one is not concerned with it, either mentally or vitally, the body becomes a very good indicator. When it is hungry it will tell you, when it needs to take in something, it will tell you; when it has finished, when it doesn't need any more, it will tell you; and when it doesn't need food, it doesn't think about it, it thinks of something else. It is only the head which creates all the trouble. In fact it is always the head which creates the trouble, because one doesn't know how to use it. If one knew how to use it, it could also create harmony. But it is something very strange that people always use their imagination for something bad, and it is very very rarely that they use their imagination for the good. Instead of thinking of happy things which would help to keep them in balance and harmony, they always think of all the possible catastrophes, and so naturally they disturb the balance of their being, and into the bargain, if they are unfortunate enough to be afraid, they attract the catastrophes they fear.

1955-04-27 - Symbolic dreams and visions - Curing pain by various methods - Different states of consciousness - Seeing oneself dead in a dream - Exteriorisation, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There are minor methods and they have smaller results; they are not very easy either, that is, the knowledge of the power to cut the connection between the suffering part and the recording brain. One cuts the connection, then the brain does not register. Thats what one does, what the doctors do with anaesthetics. They cut the connection of the nerves between the spot thats ill and the brain; so the brain no longer perceives anything or it is reduced to a minimum. And it always comes back to the same thing, one way or another; and all this calls for an occult power or a training. Some people have it spontaneously; there are not many of thesevery few. But obviously, without going so far, there is one thing that one can try to do: it is not to concentrate on ones pain, to turn the attention away as much as possible, not think at all of ones pain, think as little as possible and above all not be concentrated on it, not to pay attentionOh, Im in pain, then it becomes a little worse; Oh, Im in still greater pain, then it becomes still worse, like that, because one is concentrated on it; and this is the mistake one always makes: to think, be there, attentive, awaiting the sign of pain; then naturally it comes, it comes increased by the concentration of the attention given to it. That is why, when one is not well the best thing to do is to read or have something read, you see; it depends on the condition one is in. But if one can turn ones attention away, one no longer suffers.
  And so, thats all?

1955-05-04 - Drawing on the universal vital forces - The inner physical - Receptivity to different kinds of forces - Progress and receptivity, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  If one uses these forces for a purely selfish action of a base kind, well, one makes it almost totally impossible for himself to receive any new ones of as fine a quality. All depends on the utilisation of the forces one receives. If, on the other hand, you use them to make progress, to perfect yourself, it gives you it increases your capacity of receiving enormously, and the next time you can have a lot more. All depends (in any case, principally) on the use made of them. There are people, for instance, who are short-tempered by nature and havent succeeded in controlling their anger. Well, if with an aspiration or by some method or other they have managed to receive some higher vital forces, instead of this calming their irritation or anger because they have no self-control it increases their anger, that is, their irritability, their movement of violence is full of a greater force, a greater energy, and becomes much more violent. So it is well said that to be in contact with universal forces does not make one progress. But this is because they make a bad use of them. Yet naturally in the long run, this bad use diminishes the capacity of receiving; but it takes time, it is not immediate. So it is very important to put yourself in a good condition to receive the higher forces and not the lower ones, and secondly, when you have received them use them for the best thing possible, in order to prepare yourself to receive those which are of a higher quality. But if you open yourself, receive the forces and afterwards, being satisfied with having received them you let yourself fall into all the ordinary movements, well, you close the door and the force no longer returns.
  One can increase the receptivity also?

1956-01-04 - Integral idea of the Divine - All things attracted by the Divine - Bad things not in place - Integral yoga - Moving idea-force, ideas - Consequences of manifestation - Work of Spirit via Nature - Change consciousness, change world, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But truly, to come back to our point, what I wanted to say very simply is that one day, at the time I was asked for a message I give it because I am askedthey ask and tell me, Oh! we want to print it, couldnt you send it to us? Then, what do I do? I look at the year that is comingto be able to speak about it, I must look at it I look at the coming year, and then, looking at it, I see at the same time all the imaginations of people, all their speculations and all their inventions about what is going to happen in this so-called wonderful year. I look at that, and at the same time I look at what it iswhat it already is beforehand, it is already like that somewhere and immediately I know very clearly that the best thing to do is not to say what it will be like. And as people expect a lot of flourish and proclamations, I said what I said, thats all. Nothing more. That is all I meant to say: Let us not speak about it, if you please, that is better, that is preferable. I havent said anything but this: It is better not to speak about it, dont make a lot of noise about it, because that doesnt help. Let things happen in accordance with a deeper law, without being bewildered like one who does not understand anything and just looks on.
  And above all, above all, dont come and say, You know, it will be like this. Because that is what makes the thing most difficult, I dont say that what has to be will not be, but perhaps there will be many more difficulties if one speaks about it. So it is better to let things happen.

1956-08-08 - How to light the psychic fire, will for progress - Helping from a distance, mental formations - Prayer and the divine - Grace Grace at work everywhere, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I have already told you this several times. When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that, for little things and big things. Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you noticefirst with astonishment, then later with a smile that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, Truly, the divine Grace is infinite.
  So, when this sort of thing has happened to you a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of the blindness of man and deceptive appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in the state the world is in at that moment. It is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this.

1957-01-30 - Artistry is just contrast - How to perceive the Divine Guidance?, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  It is the same with all the little things one does at every moment. The divine Consciousness does not work in the human way, It does not decide how many lumps of sugar you will put in your coffee. It gradually puts you in the right attitude towards actions, thingsan attitude of consecration, suppleness, assent, aspiration, goodwill, plasticity, effort for progressand this is what counts, much more than the small decision you take at every second. One may try to find out what is the truest thing to do, but it is not by a mental discussion or a mental problem that these things can be resolved. It is in fact by an inner attitude which creates an atmosphere of harmonyprogressive harmonyin which all one does will necessarily be the best thing that could be done in those particular circumstances. And the ideal would be an attitude complete enough for the action to be spontaneous, dictated by something other than an outer reason. But that is an ideal for which one must aspire and which one can realise after some time. Till then, to take care always to keep the true attitude, the true aspiration, is much more important than to decide whether one will do gymnastic-marching or not and whether one will go to a certain class or not. Because these things have no real importance in themselves, they have only an altogether relative importance, the only important thing is just to keep the true orientation in ones aspiration and a living will for progress.
  As a general rule, and so that the experience may have its full benefit, when one has undertaken something one must do it with persistence, without caring for obstacles and difficulties, until an absolutely irrefutable event indicates that one no longer has to do it. This happens very rarely. Usually, things follow their own curve and when they reach an issueei ther they have come to an end or have produced the desired resultone becomes aware of the reason for doing them. But the obstacles, oppositionsor encouragementsshould not be considered as irrefutable signs to be followed, for these things may have very different meanings according to the case, and it is not at all on the basis of these outer events that one must judge the validity of ones undertaking.

1957-09-11 - Vital chemistry, attraction and repulsion, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Therefore, it may be said in a general and almost absolute way that those who have very definite and impulsive likes and dislikes live in a vital consciousness. Mixed with this, there may be mental affinities; that is, some minds like to have relationships in common activities, but here too, these are people on a much higher level intellectually, and this is also expressed even more by a comparative ease in relationships and by something much more calm and detached. One takes pleasure in speaking with certain people, for others there is no attraction, one gains nothing from it. It is a little more distant and quiet; it belongs more to the field of reason. But likes and dislikes clearly belong to the vital world. Well, there is a vital chemistry just as there is physical chemistry: there are bodies which repel each other and others which attract; there are substances which combine and others which explode, and it is like that. There are some vital vibrations which harmonise, and harmonise to such an extent that ninety-nine times out of a hundred these sympathies are taken for what men call love, and suddenly people feel, Oh! He is the one I was waiting for, Oh! She is the one I was seeking! (laughing), and they rush towards each other, till they find out that it was something very superficial and that these things cant last. There. So the first advice given to those who want to do yoga: Rise above likes and dislikes. This is something without any deeper reality and it can at the very least lead you into difficulties which are at times quite hard to overcome. You can ruin your life with these things. And the best thing is not to take any notice of themto draw back a little into yourself and ask yourself whyits nothing very mysteriousyou like to meet this person, dont like to meet that one.
  But, as I say, there comes a moment when one is exclusively occupied with ones sadhana, when one can feel but both more subtly and much more quietly that a particular contact is favourable to sadhana and another harmful. But that always takes a much more detached form, so to say, and often it even contradicts the so-called attractions and repulsions of the vital; very often it has nothing to do with them.
  So, the best thing is to look at all that from a little distance and to lecture yourself a little on the futility of these things.
  Obviously there are some natures which are almost fundamentally bad, beings who are born wicked and love to do harm; and logically, if one is quite natural, not perverted, natural as animals are for from this point of view they are far superior to men; perversion begins with humanity then one keeps out of the way, as one would stand aside from something fundamentally harmful. But happily these cases are not very frequent; what one meets in life are usually very mixed natures where there is a kind of balance, so to say, between the good and the bad, and one may expect to have both good and bad relations. There is no reason to feel any deep dislike, for, as one is quite mixed oneself (laughing), like meets like!

1958-01-08 - Sri Aurobindos method of exposition - The mind as a public place - Mental control - Sri Aurobindos subtle hand, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  In fact there are some unscrupulous people who have done that, and when they wanted to prove that their own theories were correct, they quoted paragraphs from Sri Aurobindo without saying what went before or what came after, in support of their own theory. They said, You see, Sri Aurobindo in The Life Divine has written that. He has written that, but that does not mean that it was his own way of seeing. And now we are facing the same difficulty. For the last two lessons, I think, I have been reading the detailed demonstration of one of the modern theories of life, evolution, the purpose of existenceor the purposelessness of existence and Sri Aurobindo presents this in quite a conclusive way, as if it were his own theory and own way of seeing. We stop in the middle and are left with a kind of uneasiness and the feeling, But that is not what he told us! How is it that he is expounding that to us now? It is quite a big drawback. But if I were to read to you the whole argument, when we came to the end you wouldnt remember the beginning and you wouldnt be able to follow! So the best thing is to go on quietly, one paragraph at a time, trying to understand what he is saying, but without thinking that he wants to prove to us that it is true. He simply wants to expound the theories with everything that supports them, without telling us that this is the best way of seeing things.
  In reality, you should take this reading as an opportunity to develop the philosophical mind in yourself and the capacity to arrange ideas in a logical order and establish an argument on a sound basis. You must take this like dumb-bell exercises for developing muscles: these are dumb-bell exercises for the mind to develop ones brain. And you must not jump to hasty conclusions. If we wait with patience, at the end of the chapter he will tell usand tell us on a basis of irrefutable argumentwhy he has come to the conclusion he arrives at.

1958-04-23 - Progress and bargaining, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sweet Mother, when we make an effort to do better but dont see any progress, we feel discouraged. What is the best thing to do?
  Not to be discouraged! Despondency leads nowhere.

1958-07-30 - The planchette - automatic writing - Proofs and knowledge, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  From this point of view one can say that if you had a relation of deep and sincere love with someone who has passed away, left his body, and if you are calm and strong enough yourself, this person may choose to take shelter vitally in your atmosphere the atmosphere of the one he loves for a more or less long period. In this case it means that the relation was very close, very intimate, and if you are not altogether materialistic to the point of not having any direct mental perception, you can remain in mental contact with this person, in communication with him. It is a rather exceptional case, for usually if your atmosphere is calm and strong enough to be able to truly serve as a protection, the person who has left his body enters into a deep rest there, and it is not at all good to disturb it; and the best thing you can do is to enfold this person with your love and leave him in peace.
  Therefore, even if it were possible to enter into communication with him by this means, which I would call very crude, it would be improper to do so. But usually, people who have the capacity, the faculties required to serve as a shelter for some time, a transitional shelter for those who have gone, do not have this ridiculous idea of disturbing the rest of the one they love by tapping on a planchette fortunately!

1958 09 19, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In a general and almost absolute way, if you truly wish to profit from these readings, as from all of Sri Aurobindos writings, the best method is this: having gathered your consciousness and focused your attention on what you are reading, you must establish a minimum of mental tranquillity the best thing would be to obtain perfect silence and achieve a state of immobility of the mind, immobility of the brain, I might say, so that the attention becomes as still and immobile as a mirror, like the surface of absolutely still water. Then what one has read passes through the surface and penetrates deep into the being where it is received with a minimum of distortion. Afterwards sometimes long afterwardsit wells up again from the depths and manifests in the brain with its full power of comprehension, not as knowledge acquired from outside, but as a light one carried within.
   In this way the faculty of understanding is at its highest, whereas if, while you read, the mind remains agitated and tries to understand at once what it is reading, you lose more than three-quarters of the force, the knowledge and the truth contained in the words. And if you are able to refrain from asking questions until this process of absorption and inner awakening is completed, well, then you will find that you have far fewer questions to ask because you will have a better understanding of what you have read.

1958-10-22 - Spiritual life - reversal of consciousness - Helping others, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  If one sincerely wants to help others and the world, the best thing one can do is to be oneself what one wants others to benot only as an example, but because one becomes a centre of radiating power which, by the very fact that it exists, compels the rest of the world to transform itself.
  ***

1f.lovecraft - The Electric Executioner, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   close, and I tried desperately to think of the best thing to do.
   Without interrupting my pretence of sleep, I began to slide my right

1.rb - Bishop Blougram's Apology, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  Enthusiasm's the best thing, I repeat;
  Only, we can't command it; fire and life

1.rb - Fra Lippo Lippi, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
   You get about the best thing God invents:
   That's somewhat: and you'll find the soul you have missed,

1.wby - The Collar-Bone Of A Hare, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
  And learn that the best thing is
  To change my loves while dancing

2.07 - The Mother Relations with Others, #Words Of The Mother I, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    I wrote to you with the best feelings of kindness, trust and consideration, this is the best thing to do, if you had answered at once Yes, Mother, let it be done, you would have certainly felt a greater peace in you and even a sweet joy.
    26 July 1939

2.1.4.2 - Teaching, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  It would be infinitely preferable that the division should disappear immediately. The effectiveness of what you suggest will become apparent only in practice. Therefore it seems to me that the best thing is to try, either for a full year if the results are slow to show themselves, or for three months if the results are clearly apparent by then.
  With sincerity and flexibility you should be able to solve the problem.
  --
  Certainly, it is the best thing to do.
  Within the framework of the school, should we allow out of school games of a certain type, such as hide-and-seek, ballgames (cricket), building a house. Seeing the children clamouring for them, it gave us the idea that our children may have been cut off from a certain kind of activity: being able sometimes to play in complete freedom in a big park! Is this a real need in the children?

2.14 - On Movements, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: I don't know; wait and see. the best thing is when you have got the Siddhi to get someone to beat you to find out whether you have become invulnerable or not. (Laughter)
   A question regarding survival after death and projection of the being to another place came in.

2.1.5.1 - Study of Works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo came upon the earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in part the supramental force and showed by example what one must do to prepare oneself for manifesting it. the best thing we can do is to study all that he has told us and endeavour to follow his example and prepare ourselves for the new manifestation.
  This gives life its real sense and will help us to overcome all obstacles.

2.18 - January 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Generally, when one realises the Spirit, it is the mental sense of the ego that goes, not the entire ego-sense. The dynamic nature retains the ego, especially the vital ego. So, the best thing would be to combine the two for the psychic attitude of humility helps in getting rid of the vital ego.
   The complete dissolution of the ego is not an easy thing. Specially important is the removal of mental and vital ego; the ego of the physical and of the subconscient can be dealt with at leisure, that is to say, they are not so absorbing.

2.2.02 - Becoming Conscious in Work, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Why should you try the same things as the others? What one feels inspired to do, is the best thing for one.
  ***

2.20 - Nov-Dec 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: That is not the best thing. But if the Hindus organised themselves, that would make the rational Muslims think again. And that will give men like Sir Akbar, who want to come to a compromise, a chance to intervene.
   Disciple: The Khilafat agitation was a great mistake; it only added to the fanaticism of the Muslims without giving them patriotism or nationalism.

2.22 - 1941-1943, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: His judgments are not always sound and his quotations, though they seem striking at first, don't stand a second reading, so that they can't be taken as the best. For example, he speaks of Oscar Wilde, but he has not referred to the "Ballad of the Reading Gaol" which is one of the best things written in English. Also his estimate of Blunden's descriptions of nature photographic and true to Nature perhaps but it is very doubtful if they will survive.
   Shakespeare you can go back to for a hundreth time. That is the test. T. S. Eliot will live, but only as a minor poet. The moderns have all got diction but it has no value without rhythm. They have no rhythm.

2.2.3 - Depression and Despondency, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  I think the best thing I can write to you in the circumstances is to recommend to you Xs aphorism, Depression need not be depressing; rather it should be made a jumping-board for the leap to a higher and happier poise.
  The rule in Yoga is not to let the depression depress you, to stand back from it, observe its cause and remove the cause; for the cause is always in oneself, perhaps a vital defect somewhere, a wrong movement indulged or a petty desire causing a recoil, sometimes by its satisfaction, sometimes by its disappointment. In Yoga a desire satisfied, a false movement given its head produces very often a worse recoil than disappointed desire.

2.3.01 - Aspiration and Surrender to the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  But when obscurities and resistance arise, I feel a hesitation to offer them to the Mother. The thought comes: offer the best things to the Mother, not ugly things.
  The fire is the purifying psychic fire. Offering to the psychic fire is not contrary to the worship of the Mother. To purify all in the psychic fire rather than throw the obscurities and resistance on

2.3.01 - Concentration and Meditation, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Concentration is very helpful and necessary - the more one concentrates (of course in the limits of the body's capacity without straining it), the more the force of the Yoga grows. But you must be prepared for the meditation being sometimes not successful and not get upset by it - for that variability of the meditations happens to everybody. There are different causes for it. But it is mostly something physical that interferes, either the need of the body to take time to assimilate what has come or been done or sometimes inertia or dullness due to causes such as those you mention or others. the best thing is to remain quiet and not get nervous or dejected - till the force acts again.
  

Meditation, Sleep and Samadhi



2.3.05 - Sadhana through Work for the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  6 August 1933 the Mother is the best thing.
  My thoughts, emotions and sensations are all turned towards the Mother. But how can I make them serve her in practical life? I still make mistakes and do not always get the right inspiration.

2.3.08 - The Mother's Help in Difficulties, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  It is always best in these difficulties to tell the Mother and call for her help. It is probably something in the vital that needs somebody to protect and care for - but you must accustom yourself to the idea that it is not needed and the best thing is to give the person to the care of the Mother - offer the object of
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2.4.2 - Interactions with Others and the Practice of Yoga, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  If your husb and is in a perilous period of his life and suffering from ill-health and you feel for him, the best thing for him is still that you should tranquillise yourself and call the Divine to his help to pass through. Even in the ordinary life disquietude and depression create an unhelpful atmosphere for one who is ill or in difficulties. Once you are a sadhak, then whether for yourself or to help others for whom you still feel, the true spiritual attitude of reliance on the Divine Will and call for the help from above is always the best and most effective course.
  ***

2.4.3 - Problems in Human Relations, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  I am afraid that when vital passion disturbs the atmosphere, people very easily lose right perception and the sense of the thing that ought to be done, even those who are only or should be only onlookers. In this case everybody seems to have done and said or thought what ought not to have been thought and said and done. For you, however, looking at it from your standpoint only, the best thing is not to brood on these things, but to turn away from the memory of them altogether; for brooding on them only prolongs the inner consequences of a mistaken, disturbing and painful movement. There is no need that you should apologise for anything; what we should advise is to bury the past episode and its mistakes and return to normal undisturbing relations. Fix yourself more in an inner life and its opening to your souls future.
  ***

3.04 - LUNA, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  Therefore pull down the house, destroy the walls, extract therefrom the purest juice297 with the blood, and cook that thou mayest eat. Wherefore Arnaldus saith in the Book of Secrets:298 Purify the stone, grind the door to powder, tear the bitch to pieces, choose the tender flesh, and thou wilt have the best thing. In the one thing are hidden all parts, in it all metals shine. Of these [parts], two are the artificers, two the vessels, two the times, two the fruits, two the ends, and one the salvation.299
  [180] This text abounds in obscurities. In the preceding section Ventura discusses the unity of the lapis and the medicina, mentioning the axioms Introduce nothing alien and Nothing from outside300 with quotations from Geber, the Turba, and the Thesaurus thesaurorum of Arnaldus.301 Then he turns to the superfluities to be removed.302 The lapis, he says, is by nature most pure. It is therefore sufficiently purified when it is led out of its proper house and enclosed in an alien house. The text continues:

3.05 - The Conjunction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  come to the conclusion that the best thing is to cut the Gordian knot with a
  drastic decision. But the surgical partition of these Siamese twins is a

3.12 - ON OLD AND NEW TABLETS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  and the best things not at all, and everything too early
  and everything too hastily; because they ate badly,

3.2.04 - The Conservative Mind and Eastern Progress, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  India, the heart of the Orient, has to change as the whole West and the whole East are changing, and it cannot avoid changing in the sense of the problems forced upon it by Europe. The new Orient must necessarily be the result either of some balance and fusion or of some ardent struggle between progressive and conservative ideals and tendencies. If therefore the conservative mind in this country opens itself sufficiently to the necessity of transformation, the resulting culture born of a resurgent India may well bring about a profound modification in the future civilisation of the world. But if it remains shut up in dead fictions, or tries to meet the new needs with the mind of the schoolman and the sophist dealing with words and ideas in the air rather than actual fact and truth and potentiality, or struggles merely to avoid all but a scanty minimum of change, then, since the new ideas cannot fail to realise themselves, the future India will be formed in the crude mould of the Westernised social and political reformer whose mind, barren of original thought and unenlightened by vital experience, can do nothing but reproduce the forms and ideas of Europe and will turn us all into halting apes of the West. Or else, and that perhaps is the best thing that can happen, a new spiritual awakening must arise from the depths of this vast life that shall this time more successfully include in its scope the great problems of earthly life as well as those of the soul and its transmundane destinies, an awakening that shall ally itself closely with the renascent spiritual seeking of the West and with its yearning for the perfection of the human race. This third and as yet unknown quantity is indeed the force needed throughout the East. For at present we have only two extremes of a conservative immobility and incompetence imprisoned in the shell of past conventions and a progressive force hardly less blind and ineffectual because second-hand and merely imitative of nineteenth-century Europe, with a vague floating mass of uncertainty between. The result is a continual fiasco and inability to evolve anything large, powerful, sure and vital, a drifting in the stream of circumstance, a constant grasping at details and unessentials and failure to reach the heart of the great problems of life which the age is bringing to our doors. Something is needed which tries to be born; but as yet, in the phrase of the Veda, the Mother holds herself compressed in smallness, keeps the Birth concealed within her being and will not give it forth to the Father. When she becomes great in impulse and conception, then we shall see it born.
  ***

3.21 - Of Black Magic, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  of conditions, the best thing you can do is to place yourself
  cautiously and persistently among them. That is the foundation of

4.1.3 - Imperfections and Periods of Arrest, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The length of your period of dullness is also no sufficient reason for losing belief in your capacity or your spiritual destiny. I can look back to periods not of two but of many months of blank suspension of all experience or progress. I believe that alternations of bright and dark periods are almost a universal experience of Yogins, and the exceptions are very rare. If one enquires into the reasons of this phenomenon,very unpleasant to our impatient human nature,it will be found, I think, that they are in the main two. The first is that the human consciousness either cannot bear a constant descent of the Light or Power or Ananda, or cannot at once receive and absorb it; it needs periods of assimilation, but this assimilation goes on behind the veil of the surface consciousness; the experience or the realisation that has descended retires behind that veil and leaves this outer or surface consciousness to lie fallow and become ready for a new descent. In the more developed stages of the Yoga these dark or dull periods become shorter, less trying as well as uplifted by the sense of the greater consciousness which, though not acting for immediate progress, yet remains and sustains the outer nature. The second cause is some resistance, something in the human nature that has not felt the former descents, is not ready, is perhaps unwilling to change,often it is some strong habitual formation of the mind or the vital or some temporary inertia of the physical consciousness and not exactly a part of the nature and this, whether showing or concealing itself, thrusts up the obstacle. If one can detect the cause in oneself, acknowledge it, see its workings and call down the Power for its removal, then the periods of obscurity can be greatly shortened and their acuity becomes less. But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again the light and the sunshine. the best thing in these cases is, if one can manage it, not to fret, not to despond, but to insist quietly and keep oneself open, spread to the Light and waiting in faith for it to come: that, I have found, shortens these ordeals. Afterwards, when the obstacle disappears, one finds that a great progress has been made and that the consciousness is far more capable of receiving and retaining than before. There is a return for all the trials and ordeals of the spiritual life.
  I write all this to show you that there is nothing peculiar to you in this untoward experience, nothing that would warrant you in thinking yourself less called and fit than others for the Yoga, nothing that would justify you in taking the hand from the plough, even though you find long bits of hard soil that resist and need much labour. The opening you had is sufficient proof that you are meant for the Path; for it is a sure sign of the dawns that are to come hereafter.

4.14 - THE SONG OF MELANCHOLY, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  even to the best things: hear then and see, you higher
  men, what kind of devil, whether man or woman, this

4.2.1 - The Right Attitude towards Difficulties, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  I am afraid I can hold out but cold comfort for the present at least to those of your correspondents who are lamenting the present state of things. Things are bad, are growing worse and may at any time grow worst or worse than worst if that is possible and anything however paradoxical seems possible in the present perturbed world. the best thing for them is to realise that all this was necessary because certain possibilities had to emerge and be got rid of if a new and better world was at all to come into being; it would not have done to postpone them for a later time. It is as in Yoga where things active or latent in the being have to be put into action in the light so that they may be grappled with and thrown out or to emerge from latency in the depths for the same purificatory purpose. Also they can remember the adage that night is darkest before dawn and that the coming of dawn is inevitable. But they must remember too that the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern and that it must come by other means, from within and not from withoutso the best way is not to be too much preoccupied with the lamentable things that are happening outside, but themselves to grow within so that they may be ready for the new world whatever form it may take.
  ***

4.3.2 - Attacks by the Hostile Forces, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  I do not see what reasons can be so subtle as to justify or even appear to justify something that opposes and tries to destroy the sadhana. Whatever stands in the way of spiritual progress, must be a falsehood whatever reasons it gives in its own favour. the best thing is not to listen to its reasons.
  ***

7.10 - Order, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The ancient legend meant among other things that everything in the world is made to be arranged in an orderly way; that the earth will truly become a place of rest, a reasonable place, and a dwelling fit to live in, only when each thing has found its right place. Indeed, how could one enjoy even the best things, salt, milk, butter, wine, sugar, water, if instead of being kept apart in an orderly way they were to form the frightful mixture you can imagine?
  ***
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  See how the whole routine of the house is disturbed simply when a clock stops giving its charming example of regularity and begins to go slow or else to go madly fast. If it cannot be put right, then the best thing to do is to get rid of it.
  ***

BOOK V. - Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
  There are those two things, namely, liberty and the desire of human praise, which compelled the Romans to admirable deeds. If, therefore, for the liberty of dying men, and for the desire of human praise which is sought after by mortals, sons could be put to death by a father, what great thing is it, if, for the true liberty which has made us free from the dominion of sin, and death, and the devil,not through the desire of human praise, but through the earnest desire of freeing men, not from King Tarquin, but from demons and the prince of the demons,we should, I do not say put to death our sons, but reckon among our sons Christ's poor ones? If, also, another Roman chief, surnamed Torquatus, slew his son, not because he fought against his country, but because, being challenged by an enemy, he through youthful impetuosity fought, though for his country, yet contrary to orders which he his father had given as general; and this he did, notwithstanding that his son was victorious, lest there should be more evil in the example of authority despised, than good in the glory of slaying an enemy;if, I say, Torquatus acted thus, wherefore should they boast themselves, who, for the laws of a celestial country, despise all earthly good things, which are[Pg 211] loved far less than sons? If Furius Camillus, who was condemned by those who envied him, notwithstanding that he had thrown off from the necks of his countrymen the yoke of their most bitter enemies, the Veientes, again delivered his ungrateful country from the Gauls, because he had no other in which he could have better opportunities for living a life of glory;if Camillus did thus, why should he be extolled as having done some great thing, who, having, it may be, suffered in the church at the hands of carnal enemies most grievous and dishonouring injury, has not betaken himself to heretical enemies, or himself raised some heresy against her, but has rather defended her, as far as he was able, from the most pernicious perversity of heretics, since there is not another church, I say not in which one can live a life of glory, but in which eternal life can be obtained? If Mucius, in order that peace might be made with King Porsenna, who was pressing the Romans with a most grievous war, when he did not succeed in slaying Porsenna, but slew another by mistake for him, reached forth his right hand and laid it on a red-hot altar, saying that many such as he saw him to be had conspired for his destruction, so that Porsenna, terrified at his daring, and at the thought of a conspiracy of such as he, without any delay recalled all his warlike purposes, and made peace;if, I say, Mucius did this, who shall speak of his meritorious claims to the kingdom of heaven, if for it he may have given to the flames not one hand, but even his whole body, and that not by his own spontaneous act, but because he was persecuted by another? If Curtius, spurring on his steed, threw himself all armed into a precipitous gulf, obeying the oracles of their gods, which had commanded that the Romans should throw into that gulf the best thing which they possessed, and they could only understand thereby that, since they excelled in men and arms, the gods had commanded that an armed man should be cast headlong into that destruction;if he did this, shall we say that that man has done a great thing for the eternal city who may have died by a like death, not, however, precipitating himself spontaneously into a gulf, but having suffered this death at the hands of some enemy of his faith, more especially when he has received from his Lord, who is also King of[Pg 212] his country, a more certain oracle, "Fear not them who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul?"[214] If the Decii dedicated themselves to death, consecrating themselves in a form of words, as it were, that falling, and pacifying by their blood the wrath of the gods, they might be the means of delivering the Roman army;if they did this, let not the holy martyrs carry themselves proudly, as though they had done some meritorious thing for a share in that country where are eternal life and felicity, if even to the shedding of their blood, loving not only the brethren for whom it was shed, but, according as had been commanded them, even their enemies by whom it was being shed, they have vied with one another in faith of love and love of faith. If Marcus Pulvillus, when engaged in dedicating a temple to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, received with such indifference the false intelligence which was brought to him of the death of his son, with the intention of so agitating him that he should go away, and thus the glory of dedicating the temple should fall to his colleague;if he received that intelligence with such indifference that he even ordered that his son should be cast out unburied, the love of glory having overcome in his heart the grief of bereavement, how shall any one affirm that he has done a great thing for the preaching of the gospel, by which the citizens of the heavenly city are delivered from divers errors, and gathered together from divers wanderings, to whom his Lord has said, when anxious about the burial of his father, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead?"[215] Regulus, in order not to break his oath, even with his most cruel enemies, returned to them from Rome itself, because (as he is said to have replied to the Romans when they wished to retain him) he could not have the dignity of an honourable citizen at Rome after having been a slave to the Africans, and the Carthaginians put him to death with the utmost tortures, because he had spoken against them in the senate. If Regulus acted thus, what tortures are not to be despised for the sake of good faith toward that country to whose beatitude faith itself leads? Or what will a man have rendered to the Lord for all He has bestowed upon him, if, for the faithfulness he owes to Him, he shall have[Pg 213] suffered such things as Regulus suffered at the hands of his most ruthless enemies for the good faith which he owed to them? And how shall a Christian dare vaunt himself of his voluntary poverty, which he has chosen in order that during the pilgrimage of this life he may walk the more disencumbered on the way which leads to the country where the true riches are, even God Himself;how, I say, shall he vaunt himself for this, when he hears or reads that Lucius Valerius, who died when he was holding the office of consul, was so poor that his funeral expenses were paid with money collected by the people?or when he hears that Quintius Cincinnatus, who, possessing only four acres of land, and cultivating them with his own hands, was taken from the plough to be made dictator,an office more honourable even than that of consul, and that, after having won great glory by conquering the enemy, he preferred notwithstanding to continue in his poverty? Or how shall he boast of having done a great thing, who has not been prevailed upon by the offer of any reward of this world to renounce his connection with that heavenly and eternal country, when he hears that Fabricius could not be prevailed on to forsake the Roman city by the great gifts offered to him by Pyrrhus king of the Epirots, who promised him the fourth part of his kingdom, but preferred to abide there in his poverty as a private individual? For if, when their republic,that is, the interest of the people, the interest of the country, the common interest,was most prosperous and wealthy, they themselves were so poor in their own houses, that one of them, who had already been twice a consul, was expelled from that senate of poor men by the censor, because he was discovered to possess ten pounds weight of silver-plate,since, I say, those very men by whose triumphs the public treasury was enriched were so poor, ought not all Christians, who make common property of their riches with a far nobler purpose, even that (according to what is written in the Acts of the Apostles) they may distribute to each one according to his need, and that no one may say that anything is his own, but that all things may be their common possession,[216]ought they not to understand that they should not vaunt themselves, because[Pg 214] they do that to obtain the society of angels, when those men did well-nigh the same thing to preserve the glory of the Romans?
  How could these, and whatever like things are found in the Roman history, have become so widely known, and have been proclaimed by so great a fame, had not the Roman empire, extending far and wide, been raised to its greatness by magnificent successes? Wherefore, through that empire, so extensive and of so long continuance, so illustrious and glorious also through the virtues of such great men, the reward which they sought was rendered to their earnest aspirations, and also examples are set before us, containing necessary admonition, in order that we may be stung with shame if we shall see that we have not held fast those virtues for the sake of the most glorious city of God, which are, in whatever way, resembled by those virtues which they held fast for the sake of the glory of a terrestrial city, and that, too, if we shall feel conscious that we have held them fast, we may not be lifted up with pride, because, as the apostle says, "The sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us."[217] But so far as regards human and temporal glory, the lives of these ancient Romans were reckoned sufficiently worthy. Therefore, also, we see, in the light of that truth which, veiled in the Old Testament, is revealed in the New, namely, that it is not in view of terrestrial and temporal benefits, which divine providence grants promiscuously to good and evil, that God is to be worshipped, but in view of eternal life, everlasting gifts, and of the society of the heavenly city itself;in the light of this truth we see that the Jews were most righteously given as a trophy to the glory of the Romans; for we see that these Romans, who rested on earthly glory, and sought to obtain it by virtues, such as they were, conquered those who, in their great depravity, slew and rejected the giver of true glory, and of the eternal city.

BS 1 - Introduction to the Idea of God, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Things that upset us rely on that system. The Marduk story, for example, is the idea that, if there are things that upset youchaotic, terrible, serpentine, monstrous, underworld things that threaten you the best thing to do is open your eyes, keep your speech organized, and go out, confront the thing, and make the world out of it. Its staggering. When I read that story and started to understand it, it just blew me away. Its such a profound idea, and we know its true, too, because we know, in psycho therapy, that youre much better off to confront your fears head-on than you are to wait and let them find you.
  Partly what you do, if youre a psycho therapist, is you help people break their fears into little pieces the things that upset them and then to encounter them one by one and master them. Youre teaching this process of internal mastery over the strange and chaotic world. All of that makes up some of the background. We havent even gotten to the first sentence of the Biblical stories yet, but all of that makes up the background. We extracted this strange collection of stories, with all its errors and its repetitions and its peculiarities, out of the entire history that weve been able to collect ideas, and its the best weve been able to do. I know there are other religious traditions. Im not concerned about that at the moment because we can use this as an example. What Im hoping is that we can return to the stories with an open mind and see if there is something there that we actually need. I hope that will be the case. As Ive said, Ill approach it as rationally as I possibly can.

ENNEAD 04.04 - Questions About the Soul., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02, #Plotinus, #Christianity
  4. In the intelligible world, the soul sees the Good by intelligence; for intelligence does not hinder her446 from arriving to the Good. Between the soul and the Good, the intermediary is not the body, which could be no more than an obstacle; for if the bodies can ever serve as intermediaries, it would only be in the process of descending from the first principles to third rank entities. When the soul occupies herself with inferior objects, she possesses what she wished to possess conformably to her memory and imagination. Consequently memory, even should it apply itself to the very best things, is not the best thing possible; for it consists not only in feeling that one remembers, but also in finding oneself in a disposition conformable to the affections, to the earlier intuitions which are remembered. Now it may happen that a soul possesses something unconsciously, so that she possesses it better than if she were conscious thereof. In fact, when she is conscious thereof, she possesses it like something foreign to her, and from which she is keeping herself distinct; when, on the contrary, she is unconscious of it she becomes what she possesses; and it is especially this latter kind of memory which can most thoroughly effect her degradation (when she conforms herself to sense-objects, by applying her imagination thereto).
  INTELLIGIBLE ENTITIES ARE NOT MERELY IMAGES, BUT POTENTIALITIES FOR MEMORY.

Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (text), #Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  349. the best thing for people whose minds are attracted by sense-objects is to cultivate the dualistic
  attitude and chant loudly the 'name' of the Lord as mentioned in NaradaPancharatra (a work on

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  but the best thing is to leave the attackers alone. They soon get forgotten.
  Anilbaran has criticised the book we are speaking of.
  --
  SRI AUROBINDO: I don't see why it is not favourable. Politically the best thing
  to do is to combine the Nationalist Muslimsnot only those belonging to

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
  PURANI: the best thing would be to march into Germany as they wanted to
  do in the last war.
  --
  PURANI: the best thing for such people is to send them home. Then they
  become all right.

The Logomachy of Zos, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  The full life is extremely partitive; the best things come unsought by
  complete acceptance of a particular thing.
  --
  Zos spake thus: fornicatus benedictus! the best things are obtained by
  spunk. But this met

The Pilgrims Progress, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  Which was the best thing to be done by me:
  At last I thought, Since you are thus divided,
  --
  CHR. Then said Christian, Now I see that Patience has the best wisdom, and that upon many accounts. First, because he stays for the best things. Second, and also because he will have the glory of his, when the other has nothing but rags.
  {79} INTER. Nay, you may add another, to wit, the glory of the next world will never wear out; but these are suddenly gone. Therefore Passion had not so much reason to laugh at Patience, because he had his good things first, as Patience will have to laugh at Passion, because he had his best things last; for first must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed. He, therefore, that hath his portion first, must needs have a time to spend it; but he that hath his portion last, must have it lastingly; therefore it is said of Dives, "Thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." [Luke 16:25]

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difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - study
subjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null - Savitri - SA O TAOC - SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel - TLD - TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
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