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• Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

  Darren Shan

  Detours, Path, Wrong Path

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• People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Prayer, People, Desire

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• I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Stars, Believe

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.861, Ballantine Books

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• Miracles do occur, and it's never too late to turn your life around and reach for something better.

  Alyson Noel

  Miracle, Too Late, Turns

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• true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sight, World, Affliction

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• I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound." "You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Mean, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.45, Penguin

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• Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better." "What?" He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?" I'm pretty sure I squealed.

  Kiersten White

  Real, School, Might

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stealing Things, Immature, Different

  1920 The Sacred Wood,'Philip Massinger'.

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Revenge, Men, Order

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• If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

  Hortense Canady

  Knowledge, Giving, Talent

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• Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Giants, World, Capable

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• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Long, Victory

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

  Lauren DeStefano

  World, Want, Okay

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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• ...I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around the corner. I decided a long time ago I'd stop wasting my time looking for something better and enjoy what I had.

  Wendy Mass

  Believe, Thinking, Long

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• Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kids, Play, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Mean, Blessing

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• Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mean, Wonder, Ifs

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

  Jim Butcher

  Car, Thieves, Sweetheart

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin Group

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• My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Wisdom, Hate

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• Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

  S. E. Hinton

  Stars, Believe, Sunset

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.119, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

  Jim Butcher

  Crazy, Fighting, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dream, Taken, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.215, Bantam

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• One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

  Colonel Sanders

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Moving Forward

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• Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

  Mark Twain

  God, Heaven, May

  Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.29, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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