World Quotes - Page 9

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.

If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?

I am Cyrus, king of the world.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.