World Quotes - Page 517

Your world is one of cause and effect.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

I'd stop the world from spinning for you

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures