100 Quotes About World

We all know that life is short, but often it’s hard to realize how short it is when we are in the thick of it. But when we do wake up and realize what’s right in front of us, it can be incredibly freeing. These world quotes will remind you that it’s okay to slow down and appreciate what you have in your life.

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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. Hermann Hesse
The whole world is divided for me into two parts:...
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... Leo Tolstoy
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Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it – do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole. Vera Nazarian
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic...
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. Karl Lagerfeld
She had to go on this quest. The fate of...
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She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her. Rick Riordan
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single...
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens...
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. Jasper Fforde
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines...
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare
I am not the same having seen the moon shine...
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I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary Anne Radmacher
All the world's a stage and most of us are...
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Unknown
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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. William Shakespeare
I would not have you descend into your own dream....
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I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. TaNehisi Coates
There's no benchmark for how life's
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There's no benchmark for how life's "supposed" to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it. Isaac Marion
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A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. J.D. Stroube
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never...
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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Marvin Gaye
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has...
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The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. AlHasan AlBasri
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For I am–or I was–one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all–a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named–but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well–by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. . Unknown
The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.
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The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful. Hajime Isayama
The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out...
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The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates Dan Millman
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Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. Markus Zusak
The world is terrible,
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The world is terrible, " said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them. Cassandra Clare
I think there is a song out there to describe...
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. Criss Jami
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It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all. . Katherine Min
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Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all their tears Your eyes can't hope to see The beauty that surrounds them Now, isn't it a pity George Harrison
Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love....
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Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world. Rick Yancey
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up...
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It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. Frank Warren
Remake the world, a little at a time, each in...
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Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. Rick Riordan
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Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded them of the war. On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense. You made her gargle rosewaterand while she coughed, saidmacaanto girls like you shouldn’t smellof lonely or empty. You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not love herif she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her stomach is an islandif her thighs are borders? What man wants to lay down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly thingsbut God, doesn’t she wearthe world well. Warsan Shire
In our world,
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In our world, " said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of. C.s. Lewis
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The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love. Joshua Harris
I change the world, the world changes me.
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I change the world, the world changes me. Libba Bray
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those...
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The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. Unknown
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to...
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. Michel De Montaigne
All the world's a stage.
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All the world's a stage. William Shakespeare
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Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really .. Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him. . Robin McKinley
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world...
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When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. George Steiner
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our...
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. Woodrow Wilson
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I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy. I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. Osamu Dazai
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If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on. Suzy Kassem
See the world for what it is. B E A...
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See the world for what it is. B E A U T I F U L! Anthony T. Hincks
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In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God. Criss Jami
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One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light. Criss Jami
My one and only goal is to unite the world.
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My one and only goal is to unite the world. Anthony T.Hincks
Deny God and you deny the world in which we...
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Deny God and you deny the world in which we all live. Anthony T.Hincks
When I reach my mountain top I will step off...
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When I reach my mountain top I will step off and follow the clouds all the way to the top of the world. Once there, I'll probably keep going. Who knows? Perhaps I will meet God along the way. Anthony T Hincks
Travelling allows you to see the world as it is....
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Travelling allows you to see the world as it is. And that's beautiful. Anthony T. Hincks
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Each day brings with it a whole new world because each day is different from the previous day or the one it precedes. No two days will ever be the same and that is the beauty of the world and of God, because he wants us to see and experience new things each and every day. Anthony T. Hincks
Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the...
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Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people? You decide! Anthony T. Hincks
Pink colors my world with love.
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Pink colors my world with love. Anthony T. Hincks
Pink colors my world red!
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Pink colors my world red! Anthony T. Hincks
Pink colors my world!
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Pink colors my world! Anthony T. Hincks
I may be deaf to the sounds of the world,...
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I may be deaf to the sounds of the world, but you have shown me how I can hear by seeing the color in your smile and feeling the touch of your hand in mine. Anthony T. Hincks
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I count my blessings as follows:1) I'm alive.2) Beauty is in the world all around me.3) I share my love with everyone and not just a select few.4) I give thanks to whoever made and created us no matter which religion it my be.5) I never stop smiling, laughing and being happy.6) I try and help those who need it the most.7) I try not to hate, injure or kill anything or anyone.8) I share what I have even if I don't have a much.9) I write and share my thoughts so that it may bring comfort to other people.10) I never ask for anything for me from anyone.11) I follow the other 10 blessings. Anthony T. Hincks
The world will go on with or without humanity.
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The world will go on with or without humanity. Anthony T. Hincks
Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up...
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Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up your heart to the world. Anthony T. Hincks
I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in...
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I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world. Anthony T. Hincks
When the whole world is against you and all you...
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When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standing at your side ready to catch you and put you back on your own two feet again. Anthony T. Hincks
How many people long for that
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world, " I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? R.A. Salvatore
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I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up. Anna Sheehan
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He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. Anonymous
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Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me. Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift–yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you… I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS. Neale Donald Walsch
If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world,...
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If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it. Toba Beta
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ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces. One family, many races. One truth, many paths. One heart, many complexions. One light, many reflections. One world, many imperfections. O N E. We are all one, But many. Suzy Kassem
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To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language. Suzy Kassem
If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and...
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If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today. Toba Beta
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. Karl Lagerfeld
They have money and position and Ann has none. It's...
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They have money and position and Ann has none. It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. Libba Bray
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Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible. Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror. Mike Norton
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But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”“ You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you. Sarah Dessen
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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language. Arne Tiselius
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Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences. Suzy Kassem
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what...
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so – that justice just slips off. Suzy Kassem
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It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. Criss Jami
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All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world. Vera Nazarian
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As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you. James Van Praagh
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For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one. . Suzy Kassem
There is no single truth in a world ruled by...
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There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties. Toba Beta
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Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one without the other would be hell. Suzy Kassem
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I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind. Vera Nazarian
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There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history. Toba Beta
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Your personal truth is your gift to the world. Jennifer Elisabeth
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I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect.. Never to the defect of demanding of the WorldThat it be anything that’s not the World. Alberto Caeiro
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I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised. Tess Gerritsen
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There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at. David Mitchell
Each man lives in many worlds within different life. Mind...
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Each man lives in many worlds within different life. Mind can only see world in which it lived and located. Toba Beta
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in...
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. C.s. Lewis
If you want to be reminded of the love of...
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If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. Jeannette Walls
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Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess. Sue Monk Kidd
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen...
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world. Vance Havner
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world. Thomas Traherne
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The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell. Aaron B. Powell
Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the...
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Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison? Amy Reed
Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed....
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Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills. Criss Jami
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created anorder for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracleswould be a cartoon, not a world. Douglas Coupland
God is only a word dreamed up to explain the...
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God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world Gustave Flaubert
The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one...
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The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. Suzy Kassem
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I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt. Julie Delpy
Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what...
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Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option. Criss Jami