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Quotes About World

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
~ Don DeLillo
Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value
~ Esther Hicks
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
~ Will McDonough
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.
~ Jimmy Carter
We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
~ Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
~ C. S. Lewis
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
~ Paulo Coelho
Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.
~ Gautama Buddha
The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
~ John Betjeman
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
~ Stephen Fry
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
~ William Wordsworth
The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
~ Meher Baba
You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
~ Christopher Pike
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.
~ Annie Besant
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
~ Paul Lynde
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
~ Boyd K. Packer
It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
~ Dalai Lama