Something Better Quotes - Page 12

• Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Faith, Soulmate, Knowledge

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• Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

  Rob Brezsny

  Sweet, Creativity, Giving

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• There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Class, America

  AFF Presidential Forum in Washington DC, March 14, 2007.

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• If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

  P. D. James

  Sex, World, Firsts

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Apr 30, 2013

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• Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

  Pema Chodron

  Meditation Practice, Curiosity, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

  Charles de Lint

  Death, Waiting, Ready

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

  Kanye West

  Pain, Knowing, Bravery

  "Kanye West: In His Own Words" by Gabby Bess, www.papermag.com. April 20, 2015.

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• One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Writing, Play

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, archive.nytimes.com. 1989.

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• There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children –- not just here in the United States, but all around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Moving, Past

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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• People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Thinking, Air, People

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• As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Men, Justice, Liberty

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• We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cute, Children, Destiny

  "Keeping Scientology Working". Scientology Policy Letter, February 07, 1965.

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• If you're like most people, you've always wanted something better for your life - it's really how we are designed - we're supposed to want improvement, and we're designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that - the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 15, 2011

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• True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

  Amy Harmon

  Life, Rocks, Wind

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• Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

  David Blankenhorn

  Marriage, Support, Problem

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• The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.

  Jim Stanford

  Fall, Order, Challenges

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  War, Learning, Mean

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• I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go.

  David Gelernter

  Thinking, Years, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

  Jim Butcher

  Beautiful, Passion, Tyrants

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1694, Penguin

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• The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Games, People

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  Michael Shannon

  Humility, Thinking, Survival

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

  Tyler Perry

  Past, Use, Your Past

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• When you doubt yourself you create something better.

  Ray Toro

  Doubt, Mcr

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