Better Life Quotes - Page 4

• The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history

  Harrison Salisbury

  Running, Powerful, Sacrifice

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

  Lauren Groff

  Desire, Intense, Idealism

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• How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Everyday, Numb

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Beautiful, Feelings, Love For Her

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• I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, People, Religion

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• ...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

  Antonio Guterres

  Children, Moving, People

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• So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

  Kurmanbek Bakiyev

  Years, Two, People

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• Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work together, in ways of our choosing and of our own human volition, to realize a better life.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Dream, Sex, War

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Jun 03, 2014

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• Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

  Hans Zimmer

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

  Jared Diamond

  Agriculture, Adoption, Way

  "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jared Diamond, discovermagazine.com. May 01, 1999.

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• The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Law, People

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.89, Routledge

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• Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, Rich Poor, Poverty

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• Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Attitude, Order

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• Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Years, Broken, Giving

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• City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  Edward Hoagland

  Country, Time, Future

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• When I first made the comeback it was more about getting fit and hopefully inspiring others to lead a better life... for me to achieve what I have achieved over the last two years has been a dream come true.

  Geoff Huegill

  Sports, Dream, Years

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• Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life. And like Israel, New York City has remained a target for terrorists who seek to destroy that freedom

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Opportunity, Cities

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• When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

  Thornton Wilder

  Peace, War, Thinking

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better.

  Drake

  Life, Feel Good, Feelings

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• The sooner every party breaks up the better.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Party, Break

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 25 (Mr Woodhouse)

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• One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Goal, Desire

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• You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Mind, Body, Virtue

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