Struck Quotes

The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- 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

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

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

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

Merely to avoid harming others is not enough.
Earn your place in this world by doing good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

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.

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

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

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 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

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie