Quotes About World

Most humans who have been reared with the creature comforts of the spiritually vacuous industrialized Western world will cease their search [for Truth] at the first signs of physical, psychic, or mundane resistance; or as soon as they encounter the difficulties of dissolving deeply entrenched self-delusions. Look at the world around you, and tell me that it appears to be filled with people genuinely in search of Truth!

There are two principles for creative success -- one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.

I have the power to heal myself. You have the power to heal yourself. Together we have the power to heal the world.

If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

The dao is at the limit of the world of things. Speech and silence are not adequate to represent the idea of it. Neither speech nor silence can be the highest expression of our thinking about it.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision and a task are the hope of the world.

You may not be able to change the world, but when you change your world, you have taken a major step in changing the world. And when you change your world for the better, you have positioned yourself perfectly to change the world of those around you.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world.

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

The salvation of the human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Vaclav Havel

Even when I was a very young man, I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking for happiness all over the world; in fame and in glamour, in wealth and in splendor, not knowing how foolish it was. Happiness is not out there. Happiness is not in wealth or splendor. Happiness is inside me, in my mind, in my thoughts, it is in my perception of the world.

Let us be a messenger of peace and illuminate the world with the lights of our love.

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

No matter wherever you are, share your joy to make this world joyful and better.

It is understandable that we want a powerful God, but I'm not sure that desire really leads us to more truth, or more goodness, or a better world.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

I've been giving the evil in this world too much power and God too little.

In the twentieth century the American Jewish community, with more than four million members by the late 1930s, was the largest in the world,

I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.