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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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- 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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

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

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

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

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

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

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

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

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

It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis

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

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

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

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 shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

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

Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes

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

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

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

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

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

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

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

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

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

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

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

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

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

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

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

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

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton

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

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