Better Life Quotes - Page 8

• There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

  Paul Bourget

  Aids, Duty, Contempt

  Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

  Tennessee Williams

  Artist, Thinking, Two

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• I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

  Dorothy Stang

  Land, Battle, Want

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• Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

  David Lynch

  Enlightenment, Needs, Each Day

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

  Albert Einstein

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• I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Inspiration, Apology, Thinking

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• Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

  Tony Horton

  Self, Lists, Obstacles

  FaceBook post by Tony Horton from Jul 20, 2010

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• When I think about that kind of spirit, I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit, because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

  Wendy Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

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• Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

  John Sweeney

  Fighting, Impact, Order

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• A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Giving, Advice

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1979). “Everyone's money book”

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• When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Attitude, Promise, Mind

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• Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.

  Keegan Allen

  Sorry, Believe, Healthy

  "17 Questions with PLL's Keegan Allen". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. June 28, 2011.

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Perseverance, Struggle

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

  Jung Chang

  People, Scar, Not Happy

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• I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Stability, Good Change, Ukrainian

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• Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.

  Gioconda Belli

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

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• For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life... To earn a livable wage in a good job. To have the time to spend with family and do the things they enjoy. To be able to retire with security. And to give their own kids a chance to do as well or better than themselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Kids, Giving

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Determination, Life Changing, Focus

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

  Timothy Keller

  Feels, Angry

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• There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.

  Jimmy Wayne

  Differences, Making A Difference, Way

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• Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

  Ted Turner

  People, World, Poverty

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• You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Stealing

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• Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Creating, Lifetime

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• A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!

  Frederick Lenz

  Lifetime, Rebirth, Make You Happy

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