World Quotes - Page 132

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

In the 60s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.

This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.

I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen.

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.