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Better Quotes (page 89)

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. A. J. Jacobs
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. Rumi
George Eliot quote: "It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much."
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. George Eliot
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It... Gaston Bachelard
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. Plato
Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere. Terry Goodkind
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012) Barack Obama
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same. Bob Dylan
As a rule of thumb, I'd say one clich per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy. Nora Roberts
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. Charles Bukowski
Sherman Alexie quote: "If it's fiction, then it better be true."
If it's fiction, then it better be true. Sherman Alexie
Patricia Cornwell quote: "Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it."
Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it. Patricia Cornwell
John Ruskin quote: "It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather..."
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. John Ruskin
Any dedicated moon-watcher will know that, regardless of the year, I have taken a good many liberties with the lunar cycle-usually to take advantage of days (Valentine's, July 4th, etc.) which "mark" certain months in our minds. To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist. Stephen King
Stephenie Meyer quote: "My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good,..."
My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest. Stephenie Meyer

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