World
(page 16)
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy'.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
Cats rule the world.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.
An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth — that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful', like that's a conceited thing to say.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
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