We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
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Roy T. Bennett
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
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Roy T. Bennett
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
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Roy T. Bennett
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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Roy T. Bennett
If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Thomas Bernhard
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country...
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me-- I have no others.
Almost everybody we get together with about a matter, even if it is of the highest importance, is incompetent.
