Quotes About World

We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?

Your journey is towards your homeland. Remember you are travelling from the world of appearances to the world of Reality. – Abdul Khaliq Ghujduwani

When we hear our own song as a part of the world song it has a richness, passion and purpose born from the integration of the individual with the whole. It is only in relation to the whole that we can appreciate the full range of our own potential, for the simple reason that our life has a purpose beyond our individual self. When we hear the song of the world soul our own song resonates with this deeper destiny. (p. 104)

Pain and happiness have the same shape in this world: You may call the rose an open heart, or a broken heart. (Dard)

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.

They say love makes the world go around… I been dizzy for a long time.

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

To think, one is addressing a presence so bright that the whole world one knows – including all that inner world of apparent self , beliefs and values – is cast forever into shadow revealed as a poor imitation of the everlasting day. To think, one is inviting into one's very life a guide which will faultlessly regard every action and measure it against a divine and holy agency.  To think this, and more, and then to go ahead and actually do it.

They are fighters. They love peace. They are unafraid of war. They intend nothing less than to destroy existing capitalist society and to take possession of the whole world. If the law of the land permits, they fight for this end peaceably, at the ballot box. If the law of the land does not permit, and if they have force meted out to them, they resort to force themselves.

I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull;

Perfect she was, but as perfection is Insipid in this naughty world of ours

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe.

But I do love the world," I whispered to the empty room. I love its small ones, the things beaten in the strangling surf the singing bird which falls and is not seen again, the lost ones, the failures of the world.

It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth's first midnight.