Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Don't fall for looks, they can deceive.
Don't fall for wealth, in the end it fades away.
Find someone who makes you smile
because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
- Anonymous
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We need less posturing and more genuine charisma.
Charisma was originally a religious term,
meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired."
It's about letting God's light shine through us.
It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy.
It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper.
Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright.
We're letting our own light shine.
- Marianne Williamson
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
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