Top 100 Quotes About This World
#2. The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
Harrison Ford
#3. Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.
Seanan McGuire
#4. You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.
Frederick Lenz
#5. If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
Dwight L. Moody
#6. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
#7. Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#8. This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
Anne Rice
#9. So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#10. I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.
Don McLean
#11. My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Patrick Kane
#12. In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?
Valmiki
#13. God has this ... hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.
Bill Hicks
#14. The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
Sarah Dessen
#15. Nothing in this world loves a black man more than another black man. You hear of solitary white men, but niggers? Can't stay away from one another a whole day. So. It looks to me like you the envy of the world.
Toni Morrison
#16. We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.
Tamera Alexander
#17. When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Jim Henson
#18. If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.
Franz Schubert
#20. There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through 'Gnan' (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle.
Dada Bhagwan
#22. There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it.
Rob Thurman
#23. Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#24. We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
Albert Schweitzer
#26. No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. to go out there, make a different and make this world
Shannon Polly
#28. so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable.
Lana Wachowski
#29. Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.
Richard Bach
#30. Pain and suffering
Is inevitable in this world
Yet we choose to survive.
I'm not scared of anyone anymore
And I can say
I've learned all I can from mice
Be a lion when you talk to me.
Monique Koll
#31. I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.
Bill Hicks
#32. You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
#33. You come into this world alone, and you go out of it alone. As soon as you make peace with that, the sooner you learn there's no point being afraid.
Caroline Mitchell
#34. The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.
Russell Kirk
#35. Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley
#36. Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.
Dada Bhagwan
#37. That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always slipping.
David Vann
#38. All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.
Thomas Carlyle
#39. In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya
Suzumu
#40. I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
Nate Powell
#41. This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
Aberjhani
#42. Things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
Vernon Lee
#43. The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don't wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.
David J. Schwartz
#44. There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.
Tim Berners-Lee
#45. This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
Mark Rothko
#46. The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.
Lykke Li
#47. Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#49. Kindness is weakness. Your weakness will delay the trigger by a moment. This world doesn't treat kindness kindly. - Koko Hekmatyar
Takahashi Keitarou
#50. Life (ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world beyond.
Charaka
#52. The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter.
Simone Weil
#53. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.
Heinrich Boll
#54. I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.
Hugh Hefner
#55. To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#56. That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.
Marcus Sakey
#57. I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.
David Platt
#58. Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?
Herman Melville
#59. You can never have enough sharp things in this world
J.W. Webb
#61. Well I don't like to think too far ahead because it scares me a little to think of what this world will come to after I'm gone, but I suppose life will have to go on, right? At least everyone will still be able to watch reruns of Scrubs.
Zach Braff
#62. Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.
Charles De Lint
#63. If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola
#64. I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Carl Sandburg
#65. I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!
Swami Vivekananda
#67. There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.
Ben Fountain
#68. You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.
Sohail Mahmood
#69. There are few character traits that stand out in this world more than a generous heart.
Neil Cole
#70. There are many wonders in this world that will remain quite beyond your reach unless, in fact, you reach for them.
Christine Morton-Shaw
#71. It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#72. Of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
Yukio Mishima
#73. There was a water-drop, it joined the sea,
A speck of dust, it was fused with earth;
what of your entering and leaving this world?
A fly appeared, and disappeared.
Omar Khayyam
#74. A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Just remember that even the purest of souls have darkness in them. It might be hard to spot. Perhaps they've perfected the art of covering it from the world. Or maybe it's hidden in a dark corner of their mind. But it's there. No one in this world is scar free.
Calia Read
#76. We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.
Mario Puzo
#78. And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though one of them hadn't.
Jennifer Ryan
#79. I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."
Richard Dormer
#80. The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.
Casey Neistat
#81. There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.
Tony Dungy
#83. All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
Abraham Cowley
#84. Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world's goods.
Billy Graham
#85. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Alan Lightman
#86. Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
Jacqueline Carey
#87. I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.
Charlie Munger
#88. Fix
If it ain't broke, fix it ~
because anything in this world
can be improved.
Beryl Dov
#89. In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me, upon just reflection, that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that, whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.
Daniel Defoe
#90. Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
Chris Cornell
#91. Only direct experience of the peaceful internal state will remove doubt and provide enlightenment - not in a spooky, out-of-this-world kind of way, but in a rational, let's-turn-on-the-lights sort of way.
Gudjon Bergmann
#92. There are a lot of lonely kids in this world, but the problem is they don't know about each other.
Matthew Quick
#93. Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
Jorge Luis Borges
#94. But I suppose that is the way of an artiste, no? You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die.
William Gibson
#95. We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.
Dean Koontz
#96. Literature has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.
Romain Gary
#97. But there's more to this world than meets the eye, isn't there?
Alison McGhee
#98. This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is.
Jack Kerouac
#99. There's only two types of men left in this world. Lumberjacks and Liam Nesson.
Daniel Tosh
#100. I care about you as people, and I believe you are capable of great things. Each of you will contribute something to this world. You are important. You would be missed.
Cindy L. Rodriguez
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