World Quotes - Page 217

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Don't hanker for the other world. Live this world, and live it with intensity, with passion. Live it with totality, with your whole being. And out of that whole trust, out of that life of passion, love, and joy, you will become able to go beyond.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Don’t accept the world as it is. Dream of what the world could be - and then help make it happen.

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.