Meliorating Quotes

#1. The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

George Washington

#2. Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

Louise Hay

#3. Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one.
"The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame." (The ground beneath her feet.)

Salman Rushdie

#4. The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.

Umberto Eco

#5. Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

Damian Loeb

#7. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Carl Jung

#8. Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. I lived with the shadows, knowing only they would truly understand what I was feeling.

Nicole Belanger

#10. It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

Adelina Sotnikova

#11. My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

Tom Rooney

#12. I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

Bruce Dern

#13. I killed a couple of people," Scooter said. "Wanna play cards?

Forrest Carr

#14. If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding ... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

Jane Clayson Johnson