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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
I know the next best thing is often the very best.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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.
The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.
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.
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.
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.
If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.
I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.
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.
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