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• Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don't exactly notice how bad things really are.

  Sarah Dunn

  Relationship, Two, People

  "Secrets To Happiness".

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• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Good Life, Nice

  William Sloane Coffin (1985). “Living the Truth in a World of Illusions”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Nightmare, Said

  Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

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• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, War, Smart

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Complaining, Ems

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• Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Eye, Loss

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

  Randy Pausch

  Good Morning, Good Day, Optimistic

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

  Darren Shan

  Truth, Real, Hero

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sadness, Mean, Expression

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• Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Children, Faces, Worst

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.290, Hamilton Books

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• I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Believe, Thinking, Callie And Kayden

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Simple, Stories

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.462, Macmillan

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• The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Hands, Firsts

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.271, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.

  Shalom Auslander

  Dying, Levels, Firm

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• I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl … And chicken wings.” Rylann turned her head and stared at him. “Did you really just compare me to chicken wings?” “You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb.

  Julie James

  Girl, Wings, Mind

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.25, Penguin

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• Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

  Joe Hill

  Children, Believe, Differences

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• The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Mind, Trying

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• People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Skills, People

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.

  Rachel Vincent

  Teacher, Moving, Math

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• He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.

  K.J. Parker

  Girl, Pain, Children

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• I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

  Veronica Roth

  Sick, Want, Wonder

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• A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

  D. L. Hughley

  Good Morning, Good Day, Morning Inspirational

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