So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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