#better

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

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#experience #lose #optimism #win #experience

You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things. ↗

— Jamie Tworkowski

#airplanes #believe #better #coffee #love

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#been #before #better #business #business leaders

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ↗

— Pat Riley

#better #excellence #gradual #result #striving

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. ↗

— Paracelsus

#cases #composed #doubtful #ear #feeling

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

— George H. W. Bush

#alright #alternative #being #better #here

The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humility #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #inspirational-quotes #personal-improvement

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#blessing #character-building #inspiration #self-worth #talent

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. ↗

— George Washington

#bad #better #company #far #than