World Quotes - Page 549

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world.

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love.

I didn't change the world.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.