Being a better person Quote by Mark Haddon

“He’d made the world a little better, or at least, prevented it from getting worse. That was his purpose. That was his point. Someone”

— Victoria Schwab

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [...] The thoughts that came wanted to be…

— Stephen King

“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“...wrong to think the less of another for what he or she was. There was no moral obligation to like others, nor necessarily to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“... he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were…

— Brock Clarke

“What he wasn’t so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for…

— Neal Stephenson

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer

“What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for…

— Neal Stephenson

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make…

— Jon Krakauer

To be the better or the lesser man is not a matter of the circumstance one finds oneself, but a product of the culmination…

— Tia Nnebo