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Betterment Quotes (page 61)

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander Chuck Palahniuk
She started writing notes and keeping them under her pillow, and then she started writing them on her pillowcase, hoping they would help her have better dreams. And if she couldn’t sleep, she could just read them and be reminded of something so stunningly beautiful that her heart would swell and her bones would sigh and for just a second, the world would not seem like it was going to crush her. Emily Bronte
...but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied. ...Fucking Brothers Grimm. Laurell K. Hamilton
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by. Noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiosity, Napoleon turned around and said brusquely, ‘Who is this good man looking at me?’ ‘Sire,’ replied M. Myriel, “you are looking at a good man, and I at a great one. May we both be the better for it.” That evening the emperor asked the cardinal the priest’s name, Still later, M. Myriel was totally... Victor Hugo
David Foster Wallace quote: "In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had..."
In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing. David Foster Wallace
Katy Perry quote: "How do I get better once I've had the best?"
How do I get better once I've had the best? Katy Perry
Winston Churchill quote: "It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides."
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides. Winston Churchill
George R. R. Martin quote: "Everything's better with some wine in the belly."
Everything's better with some wine in the belly. George R. R. Martin
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here. You could be dead for a... Bob Dylan
MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glassLORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles. MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth. LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you. Oscar Wilde
If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting. Jodi Picoult
J. K. Rowling quote: "Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than..."
Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius. J. K. Rowling
Jodi Picoult quote: "Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once..."
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. Jodi Picoult

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