Look Hard

Azaleas at University Park, MD 

Photo by Mr. Dickie

Sometimes you have to look hard at a person 

and 

remember that he is doing the best he can.

He's just trying to find his way.

That's all.

(Ernest Thompson in Night Light by Amy E. Dean, 3 April)

14 September 2014

Purpose

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
(David O. McKay, in The Little Book Of Virtues, 5 August) 9 August 2013

What Is Best

You think you know what is best and what has to be, but life itself, more mysteriously, works in a different direction. (Thomas Moore, Dark Nights Of The Soul, p. 19) 27 March 2013

Do Your Best

Doing our best involves the following factors:

• giving our genuine attention to the task
• getting input from others on how to do the job
• asking God for insight
• following through on what we agreed to do
• managing our expectations of how well a project turns out

(Karen Casey, Keepers Of The Wisdom, 22 December)

6 January 2013

Employment

Let every man be occupied in the highest employment of which he is capable and die conscious that he has done his best. (Sidney Smith in Keepers Of The Wisdom by Karen Casey, 28 January)

You could drop dead the moment after you've finished sacrificing your entire life for your retirement. (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 179)

Many people are fooled in the end who at the beginning seemed led by a good inspiration. (Thomas 'A Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 102)
31 March 2012

Your Best

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. (Harriet Martineau in The Promise of a New Day by Casey and Vanceburg, 17 July) 26 Jul 2011

Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. (Abraham Lincoln comment to Frances B. Carpenter in Worthy Of Their Esteem by Iain C. Martin, p. 156)