No Matter How Bad Things Get Quotes

1. "All the best women are married, yes, they are - to all the worst men' There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but she went on rapidly 'So I shall never marry you. How should I marry a kind man, a good man? I am a barbarian, and want a barbarian lover, to crush and scarify me, but you are so tender and I am so crude. When your soft eyes look on me they look on a volcano."
Author: A.E. Coppard

2. "There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy."
Author: Anne Michaels

3. "One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited."
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

4. "It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work."
Author: Brian Selznick

5. "We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of grater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us. The less we understand of what our [forebears] sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzche called the spirit of gravity. (p.236)"
Author: C.G. Jung

6. "I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself."
Author: Chester Bennington

7. "His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless."
Author: Ernest Hemingway

8. "I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
Author: Fridtjof Nansen

9. "Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time."
Author: Haruki Murakami

10. "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
Author: Henry Drummond

11. "A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character."
Author: Henry Hazlitt

12. "All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra."
Author: J. Lynn

13. "At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional present."
Author: J.G. Ballard

14. "So you cast yourself aside in advance? To save yourself some hurt, you hurt yourself? What kind of way is that to live?'She shrugged one shoulder. 'A safe way?'He released a gusty laugh. 'Is that what you call safe? It's not a safe way, Sparrow, it's a pathetic and lonely way. Sparrow, sometimes life is scary. Get over it, and live."
Author: Jill Williamson

15. "There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them."
Author: Larry Hagman

16. "¿Podrías decirlo una vez? —suplicó—. Como dicen que hace la gente.El corazón de Eleanor latió con la fuerza de las alas de un águila y la elevó a lo más alto mientras se lo decía:—Te amo, Will Parker.Will sintió una punzada de dolor y bajó la cabeza porque nadie le había preparado para eso, nadie le había dicho: «Cuando ocurra, resucitarás. Dejarás de ser lo que fuiste. Serás lo que no eras.» Se precipitó hacia ella y hundió la cara en su pecho.—Oh, Dios mío… —gimió, abrazado con fuerza a ella—. Oh, Dios mío.Elly le sujetó la cabeza como si fuera un niño que se despertaba de una pesadilla.—Te amo —le susurró en el pelo con lágrimas en los ojos.—Oh, Elly, yo también te amo —dijo con la voz entrecortada—, pero tenía tanto miedo de que nadie pudiera amarme. Creía que tal vez era imposible que alguien lo hiciera."
Author: LaVyrle Spencer

17. "I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works."
Author: Lev Grossman

18. "Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress."
Author: Margaret Heffernan

19. "I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me."
Author: Nadine Labaki

20. "To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It leads to a creeping bitterness that can deaden and even destroy the spirit...A praying life is just the opposite. It engaged evil. It doesn't take no for an answer. The psalmist was in God's face, hoping, dreaming, asking. Prayer is feisty. Cynicism, on the other hand, merely critiques. It is passive, cocooning itself from the passions of the great cosmic battle we are engaged in. It is without hope."
Author: Paul E. Miller

21. "My voice was a bare rasp of fear. "In the weaving room, the women say it's never been this bad before..." "They always say that when things get difficult," she answered softly. Then she sat up suddenly as though coming fully awake. Reaching down, she took my chin in her hand and tipped my face to look up at hers. "Remember, Gwen, no matter who says what, the important thing is to understand what needs to be done, and then do it. No matter how hard it is, or how much pain you feel. It's as simple as that, really. Once you know what you have to do, you just do it."
Author: Persia Woolley

22. "He says he'd rather be dead than leave me. According to him, we're family. I guess that makes me the psycho uncle no one wants to talk to. And he's the kid with only imaginary friends for company. ‘Normal' Rockwell, here we come. (Jared)"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

23. "No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you."
Author: Sholom Aleichem

24. "Every new day is a once in a lifetime event. How much more exciting would our lives be if we embraced this truth and lived accordingly?!"
Author: Steve Maraboli

25. "If there's no hatred in your heart, then your mind won't find fault with others."
Author: Toba Beta

26. "It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

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