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• Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

  Joseph Heller

  Cat, Fighting, Fists

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

  Perry Moore

  Waiting, Miracle, One Day

  Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion

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• If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Soul, One Day

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• I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.

  Avi

  Hurt, Mean, Causes

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• Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Perfection, Excellence, Mediocrity

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• Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

  William Faulkner

  Past, Substitutes, Ifs

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.169, Modern Library

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• I hope that something better comes along.

  Jim Henson

  "Fictional character: Rowlf the Dog". "The Muppet Movie", 1979.

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• I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Men

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

  Ani DiFranco

  Criticism, Trying, Able

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• By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Filled Up, Emptiness, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Tired

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• I don’t like being here with these people and animals. I’m going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It’s risking our safety for a chance at something better. Don’t let your fears shape your reality because no matter how cautious you are, someone or something always sneaks in the back door to manifest that fear. Better to face it and defeat it than to let it attack you unawares. (Maxis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Animal, Reality, Doors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.255, Macmillan

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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Men, Good Man

  Toni Morrison (2008). “Love”, p.10, Random House

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• Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Blessing, Giving

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• He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

  Charles Frazier

  Taken, Space, Long

  Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.347, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

  Johanna Spyri

  Prayer, Answers, Planning

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• My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Wisdom, Hate

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• Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

  Ken Blanchard

  Change, World, Advantage

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• It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Want, Affair

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• There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Worry, Problem, Someday

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Knowing, People

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• To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Past, Years

  "Susan Sontag Finds Romance". Interview with Leslie Garis, www.nytimes.com. August 2, 1992.

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• Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

  Roberto Bolano

  Love Is

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