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• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Attitude, Character, Responsibility

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• Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Character, Reality

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Looks, Matter, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.155, Penguin

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• Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.

  Rick Riordan

  People, Special, Jason

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• You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Kids

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• We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Soul, Politician, Knows

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

  Randy Pausch

  Matter

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.

  Matthew Henry

  Heart, Humble, Men

  Matthew Henry “Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-IV - Joel to Malachi”, Lulu.com

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• I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Thinking, Good Things

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.222, Princeton University Press

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• You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Jobs, Sight, Forever

  Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

  Judith McNaught

  Love Life, Years, Promise

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Something Wonderful”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

  Dean Koontz

  Funny Things, Storm, Good Things

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• Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Sometimes, Good Things, Crescendo

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing

  Dale Carnegie

  One Day, Looks, Good Things

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• ...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  Kaui Hart Hemmings (2005). “House of Thieves”, Penguin Press HC

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• It's not a bad thing to be loved.

  Koushun Takami

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

  Anne Bronte

  Sex, Flower, Light

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.244, Harper Collins

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• We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

  P. C. Cast

  Fighting, Giving

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.179, St. Martin's Griffin

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• See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  War, School, Fields

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

  John Green

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

  David Levithan

  Unbearable, Goodness, Ifs

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Order, Magic, Matter

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