To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar WildeYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiAll the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
James Matthew BarrieYour soul is the whole world.
Herman HesseIt does not matter how you came into the world what matters is that you are here.
Oprah WinfreyThe more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
ConfuciusEverybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.
Neil GaimanChange your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent PealeWhat I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of his own opinion.
Anne Robert Jacques TurgotIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainI believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma GandhiThe world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert EinsteinNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret MeadIn a gentle way you can shake the world.
Mahatma GandhiIt is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
John GreenTravel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave FlaubertThe greatest distance in this world is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I love you.
Rabindranath TagoreWe live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath TagoreI do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Richard BachEverything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar WildeIf you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Mahatma GandhiA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark TwainThe world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.
Oscar WildeLove is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.
Mahatma GandhiEvery man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGive a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane AustenLove the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
BuddhaA man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad AliShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon BonaparteDon’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Bob MarleyThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen KellerI do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
William ShakespeareNot one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.
BuddhaHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne FrankAll the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.
William ShakespeareHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
Maya AngelouIn this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinAn eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma GandhiAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen KellerWhen you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
Oprah WinfreyDon't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark TwainIf you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
Mother TeresaWe could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen KellerYou must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t a true love… The love that speaks the language of the world.
Paulo CoelhoWhy do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki MurakamiI am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother TeresaWe are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.
Alan WattsWe read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath TagoreI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother TeresaI would not wish any companion in the world but you.
William ShakespeareWhat can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother TeresaOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareI can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
Paulo CoelhoNo matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.
Paulo CoelhoNo one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
Paulo CoelhoAt a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.
Paulo CoelhoOne never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Herman HesseNever bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen KellerThis world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle, wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas CarlyleGreat men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Kahlil GibranOne half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane AustenIf you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Barack ObamaI am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar WildeSimply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you and trust to your own reactions and convictions.
Ansel AdamsI have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma GandhiAll the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoThere are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
BuddhaThere is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world, which is crazy.
Henry MillerIt is my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston ChurchillBeauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar WildeThe only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma GandhiHolding my baby is the best drug in the world.
Kurt CobainLet us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
VoltaireA world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret ThatcherEverybody has a creative potential, and from the moment you can express this creative potential you can start changing the world.
Paulo CoelhoThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouImagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William BlakeThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand RussellI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerI write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo CoelhoIt is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen KellerEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaThis world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate and be instead a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. EisenhowerEverything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin LutherThe world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar WildeWith realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai LamaIn the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin FranklinHow happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeHas this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LewisI heard an Angel singing, When the day was springing, "Mercy, Pity, Peace, Is the world's release."
William BlakeAny people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Abraham LincolnThe point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Franklin D. RooseveltOf all the worldly passions lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
BuddhaThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert EinsteinForget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Doug CouplandThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar WildeThe world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis StevensonSelf-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen KellerAt twenty, a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy, he still wants to reform the world but he know he can't.
Rodney DangerfieldI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanThere is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar WildeWe have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. RooseveltI know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. EdisonDeceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar WildeImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Carl SaganIn this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard ShawThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeBasically I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette DavisI consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.
BuddhaGod's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself and for our world.
Billy GrahamThe world indeed is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves but they are like heat haze.
BuddhaI owned the world that hour, as I rode over it. Free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
Charles LindberghIn the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. KennedyThe eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Kahlil GibranThe world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar WildeOur theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick, which has not broken its way through its shell, might form of the outside world.
BuddhaThey say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald ReaganAs human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma GandhiGod is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiIt isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork and the other is nostalgia.
Frank ZappaThe more I know of the world the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Jane AustenThe world's crazy when it comes to beauty.
Richard BachYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleBut we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Alan WattsIn times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric HofferThe world is getting to be such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. FieldsA man's feet should be planted in his country but his eyes should survey the world.
George SantayanaAs a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I born in the world, raised in the world, having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
BuddhaThe difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mahatma GandhiOld men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard ShawHeaven lies about us in our infancy, and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose BierceThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthurI arise in the morning, torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. WhiteThe World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint AugustineWe have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.
Mother TeresaHe is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe world is a fine place and worth the fighting for, and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest HemingwayIf there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar WildeA man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma GandhiAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliEarth was not built for six billion people, all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug CouplandIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis BaconAll History is current, all injustice continues on some level somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerA wise man recognizing that the world is but an illusion does not act as if it is real so he escapes the suffering.
BuddhaAll the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen KellerFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen KellerWhen we constantly ask for miracles we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
Doug CouplandTo succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
VoltaireHow far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William ShakespeareThere is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma GandhiViolent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma GandhiImpossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given, than to explore the power they have to change it.
Muhammad AliThe same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.
Rabindranath TagoreThe most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
Rabindranath TagoreThe tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice
Rabindranath TagoreYou are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
Rabindranath TagoreThe world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
Paulo CoelhoMost people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
Paulo CoelhoI never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar WildeThe problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
Mother TeresaPeople who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.
Mother TeresaThere is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
Mother TeresaThere is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother TeresaJesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Mother TeresaBe the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiYou knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
Herman HesseIt seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.
Herman HesseI realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Herman HesseThere is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Herman HesseI do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.
BuddhaIf future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAll the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma GandhiThere are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane AustenAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia WoolfThere are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiDisneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt DisneyNothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar WildeSuit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William ShakespeareIf we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma GandhiNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.
Sai BabaThere is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us with or without repentance.
Gilbert ParkerMy mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt, helpless naked piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William BlakeMankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
BuddhaI shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert EinsteinAs the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen KellerArt is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar WildeOne atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world.
ConfuciusIn seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.
BuddhaIt is within this fathoms-long carcass with its mind and its notions that I declare there is the worl,d the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world.
BuddhaO God, O God how weary stale flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William ShakespeareOn this narrow planet we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteThat is sad, until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore VidalI hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.
Tiger WoodsI hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William ShakespearePolitical extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. GardnerThere was a time when the world acted on books, now books act on the world.
Joseph JoubertThe difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan WattsAll in all I would not have missed this century for the world.
Gore VidalI am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country in a world based on fear.
Michelle ObamaThe law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma GandhiHe that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William ShakespeareThe man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar WildeIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Francis BaconAll of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl SaganI'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy and so I can communicate with the whole world.
Paulo CoelhoThe whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas PaineEvery burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar WildeThe most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.
Helen KellerYour net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin FranklinMiracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LewisA myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan WattsIt is not once nor twice, but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
AristotleEvery thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
John DeweyBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David ThoreauThose whose minds are well fixed upon the elements of enlightenment, who without hankering after anything glory in renunciation, whose biases are extinguished, who are full of light - they indeed have attained the bliss of nirvana in this very world.
BuddhaAll who think cannot but see there is a sanction, like that of religion, which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin