Something Better Quotes - Page 7

• You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

  Steven C. Hawthorne

  Missionary, Purpose, Christianity

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• I know something better is on the road for me.

  Maya Angelou

  Knows

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

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• Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Reason, Obedience

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mistake, Giving, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.393, Penguin

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• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Longing, Moments

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 15, 1895.

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• The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Self Confidence, Thinking

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

  Michael J. Fox

  Moving, Possibility, Ifs

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• A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wisdom, Men, Gains

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• If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Today, Should

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• Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Matter, Spirit, Action

  "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel".

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• You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

  Eyedea

  Memories, Past, Heaven

  Song: Infrared Roses

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• We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teaching, Character, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God”, p.39, Discovery House

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• Remember that when God calls us to leave behind something, it means He has something better in store for us. Allow Him to replace the old with the new today!

  Paige Omartian

  Mean, Today, Remember

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• Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

  Michael Ruppert

  Suicide, War, Bridges

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• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Dirt, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

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• Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as something other than music. Let them occasionally hear something better. Expose them to it. It will speak for itself. More of appreciation will come than you may think. It may not be spoken, but it will be felt, and its influence will become increasingly manifest as the years pass.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Music, Appreciation, Teenager

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• There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Giving, Purpose

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

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• You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Holy, Millionaire

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• Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Heart, Squares

  Colleen Hoover (2014). “Ugly Love: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Heart, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

  Garrison Keillor

  Eye, Details, Stories

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pride, Envy

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

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• Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Pain, Disappointment

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• Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Stuff, Form

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