Betterment Quotes (page 184)

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• running
• fire
• words

You had better run from me. My words are fire. Rumi

• appreciation
• cans
• appreciate

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate. George Bernard Shaw

• powerful
• eyes
• manly

If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3) Sallust

• waiting
• enough is enough
• good

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away. Lynn Abbey

• tomorrow
• make
• tomorrows

Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow. Stephen Colbert

• good
• goods
• aside

For better to come, good must stand aside. Carl Jung

• evening
• time
• death

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory Arthur Miller

• confidence
• love
• the secret

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve on it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity. Paulo Coelho

• hard
• quality
• moments

As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know better. The improtant thing was what the colors stood for, the taste of hard apples and the existence of Lena and the exact quality of the sun on the last warm day in October. A photograph would have flattened the scene into a happy moment, whereas what I felt was rapture. The fleeting certainty that... Barbara Kingsolver

• spiritual
• clever
• view

There is no comparison between us. What Kao keeps in view is the spiritual mechanism. In making sure of the essential, he forgets the homely details; intent on the inward qualities, he loses sight of the external. He sees what he wants to see, and not what he does not want to see. He looks at the things he ought to look at, and neglects those that need not be looked at. So clever a judge of horses is Kao, that he has it in him to judge something better than horses. J. D. Salinger

• where
• better
• here

Thou losest here, a better where to find. William Shakespeare

• beautiful
• beauty
• thinking

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession. Edith Wharton

• tired
• company
• now

Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better. Louisa May Alcott

• joy
• value
• joyfully

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. Richard Bach

• life
• tasted
• better

The strenuous life tastes better William James