The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. ...
by Erica Jong

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong

The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong

He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong

We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The success of a project is best predicted
by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
- Henry David Thoreau

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy

Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie