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Chuck Jones quote: "The road is better than the end."
The road is better than the end. Chuck Jones
Jodi Picoult quote: "What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be,..."
What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken. Jodi Picoult
If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy. Alan Dean Foster
This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew. It will not be enough for always. He is very jealous. He will have you for no one but Himself in the end. C. S. Lewis
Blaise Pascal quote: "We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we..."
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal
I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities. Aldous Huxley
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.(excerpt from 'The Garrett') Ezra Pound
If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. C. S. Lewis
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot. L. M. Montgomery
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened. Flannery O'Connor
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart? Anne Rice
Aesop quote: "It is absurd to ape our betters."
It is absurd to ape our betters. Aesop
I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest. Robert Frost
Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after. Umberto Eco
But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love. James Baldwin

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