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• A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Friendship, Self, Law

  Norman Vincent Peale (1976). “The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking”, Not Avail

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• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Grateful

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• I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

  Asa Larsson

  Thinking, People

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• People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

  Jewel

  Agreement, People, Tvs

  Song: Who Will Save Your Soul, Album: Pieces Of You

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• A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Beautiful, Cat, Size

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

  Jon Gordon

  Yesterday, Goal

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.80, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't think you ever feel a success really because everything could always be done better than you've done it.

  John Mortimer

  Success, Thinking, Done

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• When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

  David Plotz

  New York, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, People

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• The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Waiting

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• Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Jobs, Writing, Answers

  Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Character, Air, Knowing

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• Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Children, Parenting, Vain

  "Cancer Ward".

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• Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

  Jack Welch

  People, Leader, Failing

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• There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.

  Lana Parrilla

  Different, Way

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• This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Lying

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.

  Tara Brown

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

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• Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

  Derek Landy

  Love Is, Holding On, Finding Someone

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• I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

  Kerri Walsh

  Want, Right Now

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• You are no better than you should be.

  Francis Beaumont

  Literature, Should, Garters

  Francis Beaumont (1718). “The Coxcomb. A Comedy, Etc”, p.39

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• When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

  Paul Volcker

  People, Benefits, Facts

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• Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.

  Mark Ashley Hanna

  Views, Might, Flight

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• If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Fiction, World

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

  Jacky Ickx

  Mean, Feel Better, Discovery

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Perfection, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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