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One of the easiest ways to show your mercy to the world is to hide your fears from people who are already afraid. Don't kill them alive when you truly claim you love them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.
— Armistead Maupin
Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm." I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.
— Patricia Cornwell, Dust
Do not waste time trying to change the world - just look for something that you are useful.
— Davi Oliveira
It is no secret that the world hates Christianity; but when the world runs out of options, they desperately look for God.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise
The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
What happens to you as an individual is you plus the world rather than you alone.
— M Chapman
Friendship with the world removes God’s protection and His covering from us.
— Sunday Adelaja
But what are they?” Annie asked.“An omphalos, probably,” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“A bellybutton of the world.”“I didn’t know it had one.
— Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors
Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.
— Munia Khan
The world will lose its treasures if everyone depends on someone to think for him/her! The world will lose its pleasures if everyone depends on someone to make him/her happy!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world.
— Sunday Adelaja
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
— Susan Sontag
The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy.
— Shannon L. Alder
I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
One day the world will be so badly wounded that those who try to repair it will only be called "close-minded.
— Danielle Valenilla, Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes
It doesn't seem like you're living a life, it's almost like you're travelling on a train with the destination unknown.You're sitting on a seat near the window looking outside, imagining how things are there outside, how is it like to live in the houses that you pass by. And when you’re busy noticing the outside, you at times do not pay heed to your surroundings inside the coach.And thus some passengers who got down at a station midway fail to capture your interest, or maybe it is because of your deviation of interest towards the outside. While at other stops new people get up, and you like their company, you share and you laugh.But sooner or later they get down.Because it's your journey, you're the traveler and they just accompany you for some distances.And then, maybe when you reach your destination there will still be passengers in the train, passengers you've mingled with or passengers you hate, people who were there since the train had started or people who got in just before the last stoppage, and like it or not, they will get off the train with you, at your destination which also proved to be there destination.
— Sanhita Baruah
I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal. That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.
— S.J. Watson
Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.
— Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student
I don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.
— Sophie Hannah, The Orphan Choir
It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
God did not force Salvation on humanity
—  He made it a gift dependent on the free will of the recipient because He is not interested in numbers. Mega Churches are numbers. Matthew 7:13-14.
We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.
— Shannon L. Alder
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
If Jesus has to do it all over again, there will be more people shouting "Crucify him".You are not here to make the world a better place. Mark 15:13
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ
—  the world knew everything about Jesus when they crucified him. The world is guilty. John 16:5-8.
If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest realisation in one’s life is this: You don’t have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
The worst form of inequality, is the inequality of ideals A people united by the same ideal, irrespective of religion, social status, race, political preference or sexual, would have the strength to fight for a fairer country.
— Marcela Re Ribeiro, Welcome to My Heart
Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Kill your fear and rule the world.
— M.Rehan Behleem
The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,And for me, now as then, it is too much.There is too much world.
— Czesław Miłosz, The Separate Notebooks
Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you’re happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Before you live, love. Before you expire, inspire. Let your love be an inspiration to someone to also love another and together we build up a happy world!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Some people are murderers of their own gifts. They wait and see their dreams suffer from deficiency of actions. The end result is that the world is robbed as they baggage their dead dreams for the cemetery!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.
— Michael Hogan
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The world will be a better place when everyone becomes a leader
—  when everyone finds what he/she was sent to do and does it like no other man’s business.
There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don’t change the world!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
What sets Salvation apart from everything else in the world is the Biblical truth that Satan cannot touch your soul because he doesn't know your PIN.
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
If the world loves you, question your relationship with Jesus Christ. John 15:18-25.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3: Revealing the End of the Age
What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What’s at our core, then? What’s still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?
— Isaac Marion
You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence
—  don’t take it raw to the cemetery!
Leaders are good messengers; they take the message from God and share it with others in the world. Jesus is a true example; He said “Here I am, send me Lord”!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.
— Alice B. Emerson
One minute with a silent spirit of self-knowledge is enough to align you to put smiles on the face of the boring world. The world needs you! Yes it does!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they’ll gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
A thought which is created in a second can change the thousand years of the World!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The biggest loopholes created in the world become evident when people who were born to lead do not eventually become leaders and never know it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.
— Sanhita Baruah
They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.
— Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother’s old blue Camaro car and the smell of coal dust in the rainy sky of a summer lightning storm.…And all the nice bright colors of the past that she thought were gone for good came flowing back into her life like a wave of nostalgia flooding over her, reds, yellows, blues and greens drenching her gray memories in psychedelic ribbons and glittering fireworks.…She hoped that the world would always hold those miniscule yet beautiful, deep and mysterious traces of memory.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so!
— Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
The world put's too much emphasis on what a person does in terms of monetary value and social status as opposed to who they are. If I was to ask you if you would be loved for who you are or what you do (eg. your occupation), I would guess that you would say who you are. Things are the wrong way around unless you follow Jesus.God cares about who we are primarily, not what we do. It is our character and approach to life that he cares about. God wants us to choose him and put him first which ultimately means being a servant to him and others.
— Tim Crawshaw
Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive 'things'and being attractive to members of the opposite sex.
— Tim Crawshaw, So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't.
Oh, I’m Chrissy Mackenzie, I’m from Vancouver but I came here to study environmental journalism,” the girl exclaimed with way too much enthusiasm. “You got any advice?”“Search me,” Mandy muttered, spooning another ice cube from the empty glass on the table in front of her. “I like pollution, I write in favor of it, and environmental journalism most often implies that it’s in favor of all that “go green” hippie crap.” “Oh, well….” Chrissy seemed taken aback, offended, and Mandy sighed a fourth time. “Damn it, I’m really sorry,” she apologized, smiling dismally at the aspiring writer. “It’s just been a really lousy day for me and I wasn’t really thinking. My advice? Find your own cause to represent, not one thrown out into society by a ton of environmentalist dopes. Find something new, something you think could be improved, and work from there.” Chrissy smiled with a look of total ecstasy as if the words of some nobody woman were important. Mandy momentarily noticed the groups of laughing, drunk, giggling people, all acting childish… and for a moment she wished she could be them.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Why we love with close heartsWhy we love with souls apart Let the love flow from hearts to souls, Let the world glow
— Megha Khare, Write like no one is reading 2
Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.
— Debasish Mridha
Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza, Cardinal virtues collection of stories on Jaime L. Cardinal Sin
Close your eyes. Now see the world, not with your vision but with your feelings and passion.
— Debasish Mridha
Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places.
— Stephen King, Revival
In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Astounding Biblical Mysteries Revealed in His Own Words Like Never Before in Human History
It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude #1
It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map.
— Hunter S. Thompson
...history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs.
— Christopher Kelly
When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is the very essence of religion. Christ is the culmination of all human aspirations. In Christ all the aspirations of humanity are fulfilled.Christ celebrates life, he loves life, he is a song and a dance. He is also transcendental. When you come closer to him, you will find that his inner being is transcendence. You will meet the unknown, where the world disappears and God appears. You can trust him, because he is like you. He is part of your suffering, pain and sorrow, but he is also transcendental. That is why Jesus became a mile stone in the history of human consciousness. Jesus lived and loved with truth and grace. Jesus being was truth and grace. Whenever truth is there, grace is there. And whenever grace is there, truth is there. To come closer to Jesus, you have to find your own inner being, the kingdom of God. That is the whole message of Jesus. Then you will find that God is eternal. God is the whole existence. His creativity is eternal. God is creativity. God is not a person. God is existence, being. God is the energy that underlies all life, which is in the stones, in birds, in animals, in human beings and in the stars.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
What is your vision of ideal world?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they don’t themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror and glory and wonder and it will pierce the skin of the world, collapse dimensions, and open the doors and the work will breathe and dance in his shoes and the dream will be able to escape.
— Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters
A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Books make my world complete.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The Word of God is your best defence against the troubles of this world.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible
The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is thinningand the earth...it's still spinningmy world is thinningand it’s all because of one person I’m missing.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!
— Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Fellas stop being blinded by the big asses and cute faces. Some men are so concern in having a “bad bitch” where they end up broke, and miserable Becuz their busy trying to impress a bad bitch. A bad bitch will cheat on you a REAL WOMAN gone hold it down take care of her own and chase her goals an educated, strong woman, she’s not concerned about how much money you have although you should be on your shit yourself. STOP GOING FOR A WOMAN THAT ONLY JOB SHE HAS IS WAKING UP TO LOOK GOOD AND POST HER ASS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THEN GOING BACK TO SLEEP!
— Surgeo Bell
WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.
— Surgeo Bell
There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.
— Li Bai
May we unite in our diverse pursuits to create a peaceful world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Some folk learned the nature of God, that He was merciful, having spared a husband or some cattle, that He was strict, having meted out hard punishment for small sins, that He was attentive, having sent signs of the hunger beforehand, that He was just, having sent the hunger in the first place, or having sent the whales and the teeming reindeer in the end. Some folk learned that He was to be found in the world-in the richness of the grass and the pearly beauty of the Heavens, and others learned that He could not be found in the world, for the world is always wanting, and God is completion.
— Jane Smiley, The Greenlanders
Europe is made of history,America of philosophy,Asia of prosperity,and Africa of opportunity.
— Sami Leino, Startup Africa: A must-read guide for curious minds and anyone aiming to do business in Africa
That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." - Hyrum Graff
— Orson Scott Card
May we have equal concern for each other to create a unified world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be willing to stand with God and be ready when the world judges you because of that choice. It’s better than to stand with the world for God to judge you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Most men are blinded by the words "Bad Bitches" and end settling for less!
— Surgeo Bell
Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing
— R. N. Prasher
I don’t want to save the world, I just want to inspire it.
— Lindy Lewis
The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Attitude gives your work a good finishing beauty. You may be successful in what you do, but when you are not humble enough, nobody may get time to stop by to see what you have to show the world!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Go out and lead the world
—  but never forget to begin by leading yourself first at home. You can’t lead the environment if you can’t lead yourself in it.
Feeling low is normal, or sometimes, healthy. A lot of great things this world has witnessed were kickstarted by men when they felt low.
— Swaraj Priyadarshi
The world is moving at a slow pace. Each day I get up and I feel the world must have moved ahead far but, unfortunately, it remains at the same point each day.
— Swaraj Priyadarshi
Women will bring peace into this world.
— Faidra Marazaki
... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Doubt everything except your conscience, even then test the waters, for much brainwashing has gone out into the world
— Dara Reidyr
I was running and deliberately lost my way. The world far off and nothing but my breath and the very next step and it’s like hypnosis. The feeling of conquering my own aliveness with no task but to keep going, making every way the right away and that’s a metaphor for everything.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or make a super 8 home movie. Traditional film takes integrity, nostalgia, effort, patience and imagination - things that the 21st century has very little of. Everything these days, even a superior medium like film photography with an extensively vivid history and an iconic meaning, is becoming disposable in this age.
— Rebecca McNutt
Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he turned his eyes one last time to the heavens. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.
— Dan Brown
This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?
— Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don't nobody love/care for you like you do.
— Surgeo Bell
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems
A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
— Lord Mahavira
How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.
— Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say
— Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
The Sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The Moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Everyday it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of life. The Moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.
— Tahereh Mafi
Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.
— Jeanette Pierce
A broken thing can't fix itself.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.
— Henrietta C. Mears
Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
I don't wanna change the world,I just wanna leave it colder..Light the fuse and burn it up,Take the path that leads to nowhere..
— Breaking Benjamin
If the world loves you, then you should question your relationship with Jesus Christ.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3: Revealing the End of the Age
The world seems to be witnessing a deluge of 'haterisms', and racist propaganda because evil's pain was born to die, and it's time of tyranny is near the end. Don't get caught up by the souls of wickedness; this ain't your fight. ~T.F. Hodge
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You are as special and important as everyone else that walks on the face of the earth. We were all created by the same Almighty Goad. So be proud of who God has uniquely created you to be. You are very special in His eyes.
As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
Never let the world know that you are sad or the world will let you down as well.
— Akash B Chandran
Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can't Give You Honesty.
— Surgeo Bell
If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.
— Tom McCarthy, Satin Island
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
— Joseph Campbell
It's not as though the world hates you- it just has no idea who you are
— Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
To forget the whole world is easy
—  to make the whole world forget you is hard.
I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.
— Scott A. Butler, H2Zero: Part One
Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn't promised.
— Surgeo Bell
You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you'll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.
— Surgeo Bell
…Maybe I’ll be watching super-8 home videos,” Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. “I love my super-8 camera, it’s an Eastman Kodak one… Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and now Kodak has stopped making Kodachrome film and all kinds of traditional film products… it’s sad.” “Well, uh… well, have fun watching your home movies then,” Mandy finished, but she didn’t have the slightest idea what he was talking about.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, but is of the world." This injunction is at best a paradox. Our humble and astonishing inheritance is the world and only the world, whose existence we constantly test (and prove) by telling ourselves stories about it. The suspicion that we and the world are made in the image of something wonderfully and chaotically coherent far beyond our grasp, of which we are also part; the hope that our exploded cosmos and we, its stardust, have an ineffable meaning and method; the delight in retelling the old metaphor of the world as a book we read and in which we too are read; the conceit that what we can know of reality is an imagination made of language — all this finds its material manifestation in that self-portrait we call a library. And our love for it, and our lust to see more of it, and our pride in its accomplishments as we wander through shelves full of books that promise more and more delights, are among our happiest, most moving proofs of possessing, in spite of all the miseries and sorrows of this life, a more intimate, consolatory, perhaps redeeming faith in a method behind the madness than any jealous deity could wish upon us.
— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.
— Kino no Tabi
Take over the school, take over the town, take over the worlds. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more.
— Jeniffer Niven
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
— Anthony Liccione
A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
— Lord Mahavira
Disparate energies come togetherThat have never been aligned before.And so bound,Is the world illuminated,Changed forever in an instant…
— Scott Hastie
Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death! As if it were Sodom and Gomorrah! All our work undone, all the work— What are these Martians? What are we? I answered, clearing my throat.
— H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Take over the school, take over the town, take over the world. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more.
— Jeniffer Niven
I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
We are kites in this world God is holding the string.
— Kishore Bansal
To be a poet in today’s technological age means to be underrated and at times, ignored. In a world where the noise of industry reigns supreme, the poet’s voice is being drowned out, but it is a voice that is desperately needed. Our words ring out into the atmosphere and calls the masses back to their senses. We must seize this opportunity and remain true to our purpose in society. Ours is a most noble duty, here to represent the misunderstood and underrepresented, and one day, one person will heed the call of our words and the world will be set ablaze!
— Dara Reidyr
You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.
— Gemma Malley, The Legacy
Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick
— Srishti
Kino: It's pretty interesting, isn't it?Hermes: What is?Kino: The way that when someone expresses something, someone else always shows up to interpret it. Maybe the world is just a series of such events.
— Kino no Tabi
Great thoughts by great people transform the World.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.
— Andrew Durbin, Mature Themes
Sometimes in life you find love so powerful that you get tunnel vision. You only see the one you love, the one you desire. No one or no thing gets in the way of what you feel. A love so strong which makes you feel invincible in this world. And, everywhere you go, all the people can see you glow.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther's man country's hero a tyrant, a dictator or a murderer and favor the next just to divide and conquer the people.
— Henry Johnson Jr
Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively kept in an inferior situation.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.
— Sarah Noffke, Awoken
The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon.
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms
He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.
— Criss Jami, Healology
When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, abiogenesis, and natural selection.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Pretty much every day consists of me trying to save the world.
— Lisa Bedrick, Life Stories
Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.
— Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Netiquette brings the World together through the Internet for the Information Age. It's all data. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking
—  discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.
The height of humanity should give birth to greater good. We should be in desperation of "CHANGE" but not in spawning evil, because by doing so, humanity remains shackled.
— Henry Johnson Jr
So every time I lose one of my shoes and my brother looks at me angrily thinking I’m trying to catch a prince with a lost shoe, or mistakenly cuts myself and the whole world around me thinks I’m trying to attract a vampire, I just laugh sounding like a complete stranger to them. And to everyone like them. I know I don’t need to be a Cinderella. Or an Isabella. I already own things, all things, every single thing, which I love and proudly dream to own. They're just not here…not in this world. And that definitely doesn’t mean, I lost them.
— Khadija Rupa
On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.
— Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual
Look to yourself
—  you've got a gold mine in you that must be exploited. Don’t exchange yourself for fear to trade on silver platter. You brought a load of gifts to the world
Day n night passing by,No tribute, we cannot deny,We did to world's problems so deep,Not a single sign, to take the leap.Senseless striving for some unknown glory,Too patiently awaiting time for our story.Still haven't spot that light,That make us seem calm n bright.How to ensure tis time-being,Is not in vain, but commencement of freeing.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas
— Marieta Maglas, Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler
In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.
— Barry  Webster, The Lava in My Bones
Carving the world outside of you requires magical insights and deep out-worldly thinking.
— Royal Cromwell
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
our life has one chance in this world
— irak.ibrahim hussain didi
Speak life. Let your voice be heard around the globe. Speak into existence prosperity, peace, love, happiness. Allow yours words to transcend throughout space and time.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.
— Jim George
It is when things are at their worst that Allah will raise the best generation. The generation that the Prophet would be told Sahabat should look up to. So maybe the fact that you are living in the darkest of time means that Allah thinks you can be the strongest source of light.Allah thinks you -- you -- were born for this time. That's Allah's decision. Which means you have something significant to offer the world. You have some serious trees to plant. And you have to not get overwhelmed with the news around you. Even if dajjal is tapping you on the shoulders. Say (to Dajjal), "Hold on, I'm planting a tree". You do what you gotta do. You gotta focus.
— Nouman Ali Khan
She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
believe me when i say this.when you lovesomeone.you can travel the worldin their laugh.
— Sanober  Khan
I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?
— Ben Lerner, 10:04
We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
the problem with the world, is, far too many people drain their energy into what is wrong with their life; instead of holding gratitude for what's right in their life.
— Nikki Rowe
We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we did not, and it will continue to exist long after we are gone. The supernatural crept into life only when the door of consciousness was opened in our heads. The moment we stepped through that door, we walked out on nature. Say what we will about it and deny it till we die--we are blighted by our knowing what is too much to know and too secret to tell one another if we are to stride along our streets, work at our jobs, and sleep in our beds. It is the knowledge of a race of beings that is only passing through this shoddy cosmos.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
— Anthony Liccione
In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.
— Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
A girl's gotta get her glam on when the world turns its back on her.
— Melissa Landers
Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren’t lying around waiting to be discovered. They’re made, not found.
— David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.
— Travis J. Dahnke, Write like no one is reading
Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
— Criss Jami, Healology
It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.
— Daniel Abraham
If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.
— Auliq Ice
If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive. By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation. And then we would not reproduce. As a species, we do not shout into the sky, “The pleasures of this world are not enough for us.” In fact, they are just enough to drive us on like oxen pulling a cart full of our calves, which in their turn will put on the yoke. As inordinately evolved beings, though, we can postulate that it will not always be this way. “A time will come,” we say to ourselves, “when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures is a deceptive but adaptive flimflam. It seems that nature did not make us to feel too good for too long, which would be no good for the survival of the species, but only to feel good enough for long enough to keep us from complaining that we do not feel good all the time.
— Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
There are all kinds of courage in the world, and most of it takes place far from battlefields.
— Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue
Often times, the world looks at Christians and they are quick to criticize the ways we fall short. That is not God’s fault. That is each Christian’s fault, for not cultivating the fruit of the Spirit in their own soul. As Christians we all have a responsibility to ensure that we are always growing in our Christian walk, and that we are walking 'worthy of our calling,' as Paul says.
— Lisa Bedrick, Jesus, God and Us
If the world needs to end on its own choice, it would have end by now.
— Hani.N
The World is full of lights and people full of darkness.
— Jasmine Kiyani
Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.
— Kathryn Davis, Duplex
To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish.
— Nikki Rowe
The world will not get better, only we get and grow better.
— Debasish Mridha
A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.
— Debasish Mridha
The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.
— Hussein Abdallah