People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to Heaven then?’
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
I don’t believe the world’s a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn’t refer to anything that’s real. If it’s consistent, if it’s entertaining, if it’s interesting, it justifies its being there.
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
I shall create a new world for myself.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
It 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.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, ‘Okay, the world’s not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?’
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
We live in the world when we love it.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people – they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.
I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
