Betterment Quotes (page 63)

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• powerful
• power
• them

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's. J. K. Rowling

• looking for love
• running
• strawberry

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."Waiting for perfect love?"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for. Haruki Murakami

• fear
• grief
• to live

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance Epictetus

• humanity
• driving
• law

Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? Charlotte Bronte

• standing
• sides
• side

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself Jack London

• friend
• friends
• drinking

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? James Joyce

• mind
• end
• learning

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them ... but you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy. Aldous Huxley

• love
• reality
• fantasy

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love. Andy Warhol

• die
• populism
• rather

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Charles Dickens

• art
• bear
• term

the hate I bear thee can afford no better term then this: thou art a villian. William Shakespeare

• lies
• which
• truthfully

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth? Elie Wiesel

• better
• bigger better
• everything

The bigger the better; in everything. Freddie Mercury

• father
• love your mother
• wellness

It seems to me like this. It's not a terrible thing - I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning, to do something one wants. It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better, It... Doris Lessing

• words
• men
• different

...science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences. Herman Hesse

• bad
• strength
• words

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out."Something bad might happen..."Impossible. But possibly something painful"-A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane Diane Duane