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• Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

  LaToya Jackson

  Stay Strong, Book, Pages

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• I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mother, Weed, Marijuana

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• We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thinking, People, Evil

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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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• The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Differences, Challenges

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• I'm not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing.

  George Clooney

  Gay, Being Gay, Seems

  "George Clooney engaged? Retiring the playboy act is his best move in years" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2014.

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• Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

  N. T. Wright

  Christmas, Light, Rooms

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

  Steve Case

  Innovation, Trying, Stuff

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Sick

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• When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Life Is Hard, Focus

  "Can God Help Me Be Thankful?" by Billy Graham, www.arcamax.com. November 28, 2013.

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• If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

  Mats Sundin

  Critics, Seeing

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• Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the dugout with tears streaming down his face …. I suppose we should all try to find something better or worse to shed tears for than a game, no matter how hard it has been played, but perhaps it is not such a bad thing to see that men can cry at all.

  Roger Angell

  Men, Games, Tears

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• People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

  Edeet Ravel

  People, Knows

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• Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

  M. L. Stedman

  Resent You, Forgiving, Treasure

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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  I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Mean, Alcohol

  MTV News Online, 1992.

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• Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Ocean, Wave, Surface

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan

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• Good things never last, bad things never die.

  John Darnielle

  Lasts, Good Things, Dies

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• People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

  Jodee Blanco

  Wall, Receiving Love, People

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• Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Karma, Mean, Thinking

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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• We have to tell each other the little things, the bad things. Maybe they’ll hurt for a while, but at least they won’t become big things. If we don’t, we’re just going to keep hurting each other. And I don’t want to do that anymore.

  Veronica Rossi

  Hurt, Want, Littles

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• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Theft

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books

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• This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Echoes, Giving

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• Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Blessing, Perspective, Needs

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 26, 2015

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• Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren't on the horizon, I don't think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thinking, Opposites, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Dec 04, 2016

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