World Quotes - Page 165

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Thoughts rule the world.

If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wanes. May young people have increasing confidence in her and may they entrust their lives to her.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.