Best Things Quotes - Page 26

• 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

  Communication, World, Able

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• Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.

  Poppy King

  Wisdom, Business, Average

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• 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

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• 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

  Struggle, Book, Writing

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• The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.

  Jessye Norman

  Voice, Long, Joy

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• 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

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Ballet, Abuse, Detrimental

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• You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

  Toni Morrison

  Self Esteem, Esteem

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• 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.

  Regret, Ideas, Domestic Violence

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• The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.

  Gerard Way

  Wearing Black, Black, Hawaii

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• Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

  Chip Heath

  Stories, Next, Kind

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• 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

  Body, Objects, Knows

  Allan Gurganus (2010). “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel”, p.655, Vintage

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• The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

  Johannes Brahms

  Men, People, Facts

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Trying, Problem

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• 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

  Dwelling, Sorrow, Busy

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• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Evil, Entrepreneur

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• 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

  Song, Sex, Fall

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• I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it. You should never will a change in your work - you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

  John Currin

  Sex, Ideas, Done

  "Lifting the Veil". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2008.

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• What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We have to listen to each others narratives. Not interrupt defensively, or with hostility, but really try to open our hearts and listen with empathy. I learned so much from that meeting. It was a very difficult thing to do and it was one of the best things that I ever did in my life. Look what scares you in the face, and try to understand it. Empathy, I have learned, is revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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• The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was

  Ric Ocasek

  Song, Mean, Eye

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• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

  George Etherege

  Passion, Violent, Torture

  'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 2, sc. 2

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• Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Life, Way, Classical Music

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• The best thing to know is what you don't know.

  Christine Quinn

  Knows

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• The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

  Pierre Trudeau

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• 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

  Focus, Live For Today, Tomorrow

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, p.28, Hazelden Publishing

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