Top 100 Better Than Life Quotes
#1. Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.
Horace Mann
#2. 3 Because your x steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you y as long as I live;
Anonymous
#3. You have tasted of death now," said the old man. "Is it good?"
"It is good," said Mossy. "It is better than life."
"No," said the old man: "it is only more life.
George MacDonald
#4. We don't come to Jesus because He makes life better. We come to Jesus because He's better than life. - Matt Chandler
Jan Elder
#5. My lips will glorify You because Your faithful love is better than life. Psalm 63:3
Beth Moore
#6. Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books!
Shainee Gabel
#7. I've got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I'm okay.
Francis Chan
#8. A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch
#9. Reading is better than life. Without reading, you're stuck with life.
Fran Lebowitz
#10. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.
Anonymous
#11. And I read the moral
A brave endeavour
To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
Is better than life with love forever,
And love is the sweetest thing on earth.
James Jeffrey Roche
#12. Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times. Thank You for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.
Francis Chan
#13. One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not so frightening," she said, her eyes filled with terror.
Carole Maso
#16. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#17. I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
Joan Cusack
#18. Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
Robert Charles Wilson
#20. One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
Kate Williams
#21. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.
Ellen Glasgow
#22. It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
Albert Camus
#23. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.
Steven Aitchison
#24. In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#26. I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.
Dennis Wholey
#27. You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it!
Steve Maraboli
#28. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oskar Homolka
#29. Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.
Gregor Von Rezzori
#30. The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!
Maddy Malhotra
#32. There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.
Theodore Dalrymple
#33. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
Aleksandra Layland
#34. The union with Christ which produces no effect on heart and life is a mere formal union, which is worthless before God. The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
J.C. Ryle
#35. And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
Vincent Van Gogh
#36. Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one-
Hugh Howey
#37. If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
Ashly Lorenzana
#38. When your girlfriend broke your heart, don't even say a word, just smile because she gives you the opportunity to find someone better than her.
Werley Nortreus
#39. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.
Mark Lawrence
#40. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world
Ann Patchett
#41. In life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar
Ikechukwu Joseph
#42. [Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.
Jeff Sessions
#43. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
#44. Or maybe it was her father's pragmatic dictum -- "You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you"-- that disposed her to see the hardships of her life as a fate shared by everyone, her good fortunes as an unearned blessing.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#45. Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.
Doug Cooper
#46. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
#47. Because going through a hard life with someone else is better than going through an easy life alone.
Jesse Eisenberg
#48. Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.
Steve Maraboli
#49. Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?
Neal Shusterman
#50. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.
Alan Bradley
#51. It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.
Debasish Mridha
#52. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.
Philip K. Dick
#53. You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life with the recognition that, all in all, you got better than you deserved.
David Brooks
#54. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.
Jasinda Wilder
#55. There are no wrong answers only different perspectives. With that being said, some perspectives are certainly better than others.
Amanda Mosher
#56. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. Pillow
#57. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Karen Blixen
#58. That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
George Matthew Adams
#59. A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability!
Evinda Lepins
#60. And she had the magic I had never come across all my life. A minute with her messed up my mind and heart in a way that all the theories of right and wrong didn't matter anymore. All of a sudden opening my arms to the storm seemed a better choice, than dancing under the rainbows.
Akshay Vasu
#61. I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.
Warren Buffett
#62. True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.
Paulo Coelho
#63. Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
Stephen Hunter
#64. I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.
Jim Caviezel
#65. There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life itself. And since there is no greater gift, there can be no greater reward
Samantha Glen
#66. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
Elizabeth Berg
#67. All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
John F. Kennedy
#68. It is better to live in a hut with abundance of unconditional love than live in wealth and splendor but without any love.
Debasish Mridha
#69. For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
Aeschylus
#70. Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
Christopher Pike
#72. There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
Hosea Ballou
#73. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.
Charles Hugh Smith
#75. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.
Ben Marcus
#76. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.
C.S. Lewis
#77. Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.
Joe Nichols
#78. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#79. Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you're better than the rabbits we ate last night.
Barry Hannah
#80. The part that needs healing is our personal life. Personal life has nothing to do with work. Besides, what better way of healing than to find our center of self-sovereignty? Isn't that the whole point of healing?
Steven Pressfield
#81. Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.
Katie Crouch
#82. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."
But trying is better than not doing anything at all.
Kcat Yarza
#83. There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#84. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.
Ronald C. White Jr.
#85. Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels.
Katherine Ramsland
#86. I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
#87. By living such a negative lifestyle, we have become unaware of our effect on the world, and have given the power to people that wish nothing better for us than a life of servitude.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#88. Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
Pliny The Elder
#89. Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain
James Rollins
#90. It's better to end something and start another than to imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. Life can never promise to always be happy but life gets better after you accept things you just can't change. For you Jelle, from me.. with luv. He-he!
Marione Ashley
#91. Expressions like "the good ole days" implied that life used to be of a higher quality than it is now, but I think everything looks better in retrospect.
Penelope Douglas
#92. People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
Caroline B. Cooney
#93. If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.
Sophie Kinsella
#94. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle
Ally Carter
#95. What could be a better use of your time than establishing a game plan for your life?
Michael Hyatt
#96. Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
Chuck Barris
#97. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
#98. We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.
Anton Chekhov
#99. Because the truth is, the surprises life gives are always better than the things you think you see coming. Publishing
Jon Acuff
#100. Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are.
Margaret Atwood
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