Attribution to Poe debunked by the Edgar Allan Poe museum https://www.poemuseum.org/blog/did-poe-really-say-that/.
Earliest known source: a 2009 comment on a South Carolina duck hunting website http://www.scducks.com/forum/showpost.php?s=facea9e6926c3094744eadf268103181&p=513562&postcount=18.
Misattributed
“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”
Variant: Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Source: Life of Pi
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
Source: Life of Pi
after Juan takes the "Triple Pepper Threat" in the Release the Bats DVD
Release the Bats DVD
“The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.”
Interviewed in Time (29 December 1975)
“The best things in life aren't things.”
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
