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Joan Didion Quotes

Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Joan Didion.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung

 

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We return thanks to our mother,
the earth, which sustains us.
We return thanks to the rivers and streams
which supply us with water.
We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines
for the cure of our diseases.
We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters,
the beans and squashes, which give us life.
We return thanks to the bushes and trees,
which provide us with fruit.
We return thanks to the wind,
which, moving the air, has banished diseases.
We return thanks to the moon and the stars,
which have given us their light when the sun was gone.
We return thanks to our grandfather He-no,
that he has protected his grandchildren from witches and reptiles,
and has given us his rain.
We return thanks to the sun,
that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye.
Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit,
in whom is embodied all goodness,
and who directs all things for the good of his children.
- Iroquois traditional

The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch

There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

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

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

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

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

Do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

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

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

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen

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

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

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

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

The best way to find yourself
is to lose yourself
in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Today, I will do my best...
and then relax in the knowing
that I have done all I could.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous


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