Get Better Quotes - Page 39

• While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

  Robin Sharma

  Home, Average, Office

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 28, 2013

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• With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Ideas, Progress, Prosperity

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• I think now more than ever there's so much available honesty that you can find on the Internet. You can go on to YouTube and find really, really vulnerable, really verité stuff. It's not even verité, it's real! It's people confessing very private things. In a world with "It Gets Better" videos where people are trying to keep themselves alive and speak out to other people and are really brave and courageous.

  James Ponsoldt

  Honesty, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

  Amy Tan

  Regret, Way, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.102, Penguin

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• Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?

  James A. Owen

  Thinking, Said, Making Up

  James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.672, Simon and Schuster

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• I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  People, Speak

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Life is so good, and it gets better every day.

  George Dawson

  Life Is, It Gets Better

  George Dawson, Richard Glaubman (2000). “Life Is So Good”, p.260, Random House

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• I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy. The sun is up and the sky is blue empty blue light blue clear blue. I would drink the sky if I could drink it, drink it and celebrate it and let it fill me and become me. I am getting better. Empty and clear and light and blue. I am getting better.

  James Frey

  Lakes, Light, Blue

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.272, Anchor

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• What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

  Umberto Eco

  Hurt, Believe, Thinking

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

  Marian Keyes

  Letting Go, Dream, Attitude

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• Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This is getting better and better! I shook my head regretfully. "You should leave such a dangerous assignment to people better qualified: next time ask an old granny, or a toddler-

  Jonathan Stroud

  People, Teeth, Next

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• Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

  David Levithan

  Goes On, Blah, Young

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Song, Thinking

  "Saturday". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2005.

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• Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?" "Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.

  F.E. Higgins

  Giving Up, Believe, Want

  F. E. Higgins (2008). “The Black Book of Secrets”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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• Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Heart, Thinking

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• It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

  Julia Cameron

  Believe, Simple, Negativity

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.116, Penguin

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• I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get better?" The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I...I don't know.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Focus, Missing

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.659, Penguin

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• And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Healthy, Nausea

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Promise, Dying, Ifs

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, World

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• My goal is always, how do you get better?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goal

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• I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Book, Boys

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Apr. 1779)

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• If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, America, Would Be

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