#bette

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#better #i #me #parents #raised

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#better #book #friend #honest #i

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#children #must #only #same #way

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison? ↗

— Erin Gray

#body #center #centers #each #emotional

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#close #communities #company #down #employees

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way. ↗

— Robert Guillaume

#been #better #could #did #done

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are. ↗

— Ian Hart

#better #everyone #films #i #jordan

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

#anything #better #changed #child #could

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#becoming-better #trials-of-life #life

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#alright #alternative #being #better #here