Better Quotes (page 92)

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• seductive
• brainly
• past

Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future. Vladimir Nabokov

• love
• work
• wellness

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• short
• perfect
• manly

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it Benjamin Franklin

• reading
• writing
• getting better

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read. Stephen King

• motivational
• moving forward
• moving

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Richard Carlson

• stupid
• face
• stupider

Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face! Stephenie Meyer

• die
• storm
• saying

Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet - and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him - and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity - it would be better to live so than die right now! Only to live, to... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• death
• men
• moments

Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. Friedrich Nietzsche

• reason
• reasons
• reasonable

Wizard's Third RulePassion rules reason, For better or for worse. Terry Goodkind

• evening
• progress
• men

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better. Joseph Heller

• look
• smile
• memorial

I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again." He seemed to shake off the memory and leaned back on an elbow, gazing at her with a lop-sided smile on his face."The Shadrin left some scars that aren't healed yet. But I would have to take off my pants to show them to you."Really?" Kahlan gave a throaty laugh. "I think I better have a look... to see if everything is all right. Terry Goodkind

• husband wife love
• love husband
• smile

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting. Mother Teresa

• freedom
• manly
• rightfully

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. Thomas Huxley

• wonder
• wonderful
• knowing

it was better to know the worst than to wonder. Margaret Mitchell

• energy
• book
• parents

And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly... Mary Oliver