World Quotes

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

...to make the world safe for democracy.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.

You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

The world is my representation

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

I can't stop pointingto the beauty.Every moment and place says,'Put this design in your carpet!'

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

The world belongs to the discontented.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

We live in the world when we love it.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.