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Quotes About World

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.
~ James C. Scott
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
~ Dalai Lama
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.
~ Ellen Pompeo
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
~ Anne Rice
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
~ Bertrand Russell
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
~ Blaise Pascal
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
~ Kailash Kher
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A change of heart leads to change in behavior, and a change in behavior leads to changing the world.
~ Marianne Williamson
I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.
~ Neil Gaiman
We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
~ Nick Mancuso
The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
~ Philip Yancey
All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.
~ Oskar Kokoschka
You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.
~ Robert Adams
You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
~ William J. Clinton
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.
~ Saul Alinsky
How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
~ Shirley Bassey
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains
~ Stephen R. Donaldson