The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Ambrose Bierce
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THOMAS J. POWELL The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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JARELLE HIGHTOWER The best thing you can do with your life, is to live it.
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H. P. LOVECRAFT The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him th...
GEORGE MACDONALD Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the bes...
DWIGHT HENRY Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you.
GREGG KORROL That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job ...
CAITLYN JENNER The Best Person to BE is Who You are. The Best thing to DO is what you Love. The Best Things to HAVE...
LORRIN L. LEE Try your best... Do your best... Sow the best and reap the best! The best is right in you... Don't h...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Very rarely do the best things in life fall into our laps; we have to work for them.
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ARAM SINNREICH Life is short. There is no need to do everything in life. Just do the best things. For you.
LORRIN L. LEE Sometimes—or usually, in your case—the best thing to do is shut up.
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VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE The best things in life such as love, laughter, sincere friendship, loyalty and compassion, are free...
CHANDRABABU V.S. The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our
controls.
GERALD G JAMPOLSKY Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI Even when you think its time to give up, remember what got you this far and ask yourself if giving u...
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BOB JR The team is doing what we're asking. They don't give up, we've seen that in every game so far this y...
BOB BAKER JR The team is doing what we're asking, ... They don't give up, we've seen that in every game so far th...
BOB BAKER I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C. Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
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VICTOR SHAMAS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN When you give away your best, the best in life will come back to you.
LORRIN L. LEE I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU I guess the best thing I should do
Is to ignore the idiots like you
Who just try to bring my life do...
COCOY MCCOY The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
AUDREY HEPBURN The worst thing you could to your best friends is to help them in something they could do themselves...
WOHI PURANA The best thing each of them have going for them is their opponent. The negatives are high enough to ...
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VICTOR LAVALLE Success goes with you when you go an extra mile.
NAZIM AMBALATH She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER The best way to lead your life is to do your best wherever you are with whatever you have.
SUPERNA BATHEJA We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Bad things do happen; how one responds to them defines character and the quality of life. One can ch...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
PHILIP JOHNSON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Present life is just another halt of our long journey.The best we do in this life, the best we gain ...
NISHI DE SILVA Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do...
JIMMY JOHNSON Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do,...
JIMMY JOHNSON Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and giv...
ALIA BHATT Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.
ETHAN CANIN The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you...
GUY RITCHIE To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you d...
AGNES MARTIN In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the w...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
ANONYMOUS The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
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ROGER FEDERER I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
L. M. MONTGOMERY Being in love is the best thing in my life.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with ...
NEIL SIMON Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
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TONY LA RUSSA The best things in life aren't things.
ART BUCHWALD The best things in life aren't things
ART BUCHWALD You do your best and give the other person thumbs-up.
CAITLIN TANNER To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Reliance on God is the best thing to do; because God's good outweighs your best.
HANNAH Q. MENSAH (HQM) What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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DOBRICA ĆOSIć Boring people live boring lives.
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GARY F EVANS... Every new day provides for you the opportunity to be your very best
SOTONYE ANGA To give your best is to receive the best.
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY We're going to try to hang with them-pull up an upset. We'll do our best.
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AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
AMBROSE BIERCE The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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