World Quotes - Page 333

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

I'd like to live in a world where immigration is just called moving.

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.

Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world.

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

I love my fans. They’re the most beautiful thing in the entire world for me. Every single thing I do is for them.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.