Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
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Feel Better
572 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Linda McCartney
Photographer, Musician
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain."
Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better."
Kenneth Williams
Actor
"We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better."
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"Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better"
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"Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying."
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"A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could."
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"Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning."
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"Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now."
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"Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually."
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"You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better."
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"Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted."
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"Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful."
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"Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs."
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"You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line."
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"One of my obsessions in life is that we have the tools to manufacture moments and real things, but it's overwhelming and there's a lot of fear and you think maybe you'll be rejected or embarrassed or somehow hurt emotionally. So we don't do the things we know we can do, but we can make people feel better and make people happier with compliments or just being positive and that sort of thing and sending it their way."
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"People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps... sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?"
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"Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle."
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"Nothing can make me feel better now, except cocaine."
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"What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?"
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"I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better."
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"The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage."
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"If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better."
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"When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself."
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