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e1dc247 People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. world kindness goodness honesty happiness misattributed-to-mother-teresa Kent M. Keith
b6e2a4a Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. attributed-no-source world change life philosophy inspirational activism Margaret Mead
04a83e6 Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. world people scared John Steinbeck
0c73013 The real world is where the monsters are. world reality Rick Riordan
eda9835 Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? reading world people peace David Baldacci
60d9121 It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. pith world inspiring hope inspirational breaking save children Frank Warren
29668f7 How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. light world humanity goodness life inspirational good-deeds William Shakespeare
4c289ce The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story? world thinking Yann Martel
c975a16 Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. fish earth man loss nature world wonder past parable brooks glens environment trout mystery destruction creation maps Cormac McCarthy
23b537e No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. magic world faith mystery R.A. Salvatore
7a3d4c2 It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. world love philosophy hermann-hesse respect Hermann Hesse
c9271f5 But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. world you need Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
28ae5ce Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. light world inspirational help alone Walt Whitman
77abd74 The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... world Leo Tolstoy
2276aa9 When she awoke, the world was on fire. world shay uglies tally traveling fire ugly Scott Westerfeld
8219869 Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. world inspirational incrementalism Rick Riordan
a5dd8ac Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear. world heavy nothing to-bear never tired everything F. Scott Fitzgerald
927405a All 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, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. mankind theatre world poetry humanity life roles stage William Shakespeare
0d3a050 We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. world pieces Chuck Palahniuk
6f90cb5 In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas. world inspirational star C.S. Lewis
41cfccf Your daughter is ugly world poetry inspirational Warsan Shire
30b063b "In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of." world star C.S. Lewis
f1ac00a Beyond the edge of the world there's a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard. world loop signs emptiness substance edge space Haruki Murakami
4e7aa8a "But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin." world Voltaire
ae57116 I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger. world reality hunger Neil Gaiman
479217e All the world's a stage. theatre universe world humanity philosophy stage William Shakespeare
e01207e Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do the highest deed. In this, glorify your Holy Self, and thus too, glorify Me. Bring peace to the Earth by bringing peace to all those whose lives you touch. Be peace. Feel and express in every moment your Divine Connection with the All, and with every person, place, and thing. Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man's shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person's truth, adore every person's God, protect every person's rights, preserve every person's dignity, promote every person's interests, provide every person's needs, presume every person's holiness, present every person's greatest gifts, produce every person's blessing, pronounce every person's future secure in the assured love of God. Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you. Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for boast. Speak softly, lest someone think you are merely calling for attention. Speak gently, that all might know of Love. Speak openly, lest someone think you have something to hide. Speak candidly, so you cannot be mistaken. Speak often, so that your word may truly go forth. Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored. Speak lovingly, that every syllable may heal. Speak of Me with every utterance. Make of your life a gift. Remember always, you are the gift! Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift--yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.) When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you...I HAVE SENT YOU NOTHING BUT ANGELS. world god love truth inspirational speak peace Neale Donald Walsch
029c275 "Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" world extreme jeb maximum max other ride saving sports James Patterson
05e666e You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. world treasure eleven-minutes paolo-coelho victim Paulo Coelho
fa80c91 "How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?" world past truth simper R.A. Salvatore
41dedd0 The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love. passion world romance jesus god love inspirational cross christian christ Joshua Harris
3957141 You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you. world margot trippy Paul Auster
dac0acb Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand. moving-on world depression kinsella shopaholic Sophie Kinsella
eb1c2ec There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world. story world sunrise stories Terry Pratchett
90c3eab A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. alter course domino fate world choice life inspirational monumental chain reaction stranger decision lives J.D. Stroube
320c56a She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her. fate world friendship love otp saving-the-world forget Rick Riordan
6236395 It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be. world life van-helsing misery laugh Bram Stoker
8137a37 We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in... world Jeffrey Eugenides
86e9e9c For I am--or I was--one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all--a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named--but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey's bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well--by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. virtue personality world life pride James Baldwin
ad77b98 Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. world hard-boiled wonderland Haruki Murakami
f79d7a4 Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. world sky cruel Lois Lowry
5837c62 One must be cunning and wicked in this world. world wicked Leo Tolstoy
4f8627a The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon. responsibility world happiness Paulo Coelho
746c317 "The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them." world life peace Cassandra Clare
54870a4 If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise. earth world religion god lord sunrise Jeannette Walls
e65d563 and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure. world love victim power Stephen King
838f979 But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? world talk L.M. Montgomery
3e62bb6 Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now pain world Sue Monk Kidd
312a794 The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. world humor misunderstandings problems troubles grammar Michel de Montaigne
f11e957 We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. world life George Eliot
850ae60 You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world. world voltaire Voltaire
5cf452e Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world america greatest the-newsroom tv-series world life inspirational scene monologue country Aaron Sorkin
ddf4304 "The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates" world philosophy puzzle Dan Millman
ae346b0 Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. world Markus Zusak
678f7e8 We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. universe world repair tea Rudyard Kipling
13d0dbe I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. musician world poetry humanity music songs life truth inspirational lyrics songwriting art connection song-lyrics artist Criss Jami
ee7ba29 I change the world, the world changes me. world change inspirational gemma-doyle Libba Bray
2c428bd All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. mankind world humanity actors theater stage William Shakespeare
2fb1205 There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. world evil Evelyn Waugh
1414dd1 That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown. world shopaholic Sophie Kinsella
366e68f What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!! world height fullmetal-alchemist Hiromu Arakawa
5fc41e7 The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable. true men world Libba Bray
a558aa3 There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before. world pretty-words sky Neil Gaiman
74f9b2d I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world world H.G. Wells
69ccc45 She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. influence world youth life Orhan Pamuk
5609679 What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead? world puzzle Jodi Picoult
f80c057 People move around so much in the world, things get lost. travel world people lost Emma Donoghue
7a4339a If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent. world Jonathan Safran Foer
36ead5a There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her. world moment Nicholas Sparks
454bca6 It's only through sheer force and luck that she's yet to take over the world. world women humor her takeover Julia Quinn
845360d The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much. world lick remembering longing Margaret Mitchell
1a9eae4 The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. sleep sanity mind world Stephen King
b419638 It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. world my-name-is-asher-lev potok judaism pretty jewish jew Chaim Potok
7ecaac3 The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die. world Jodi Picoult
9433157 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: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world. stars heaven good world spirit love jewel sea king Thomas Traherne
877ded0 Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love-because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world. prayer world heart life love courageous done pure lord weakness will children Paulo Coelho
85de880 The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. earth world truth lousy manufactured planet kurt-vonnegut destruction Kurt Vonnegut
e809783 Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. world wish John Green
1bb517d "I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words passion world star Hermann Hesse
4ff18fc There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one. story world imagination tale Cormac McCarthy
7698141 Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out. time world shimmer disney hunter disney-world year luc vacation Jennifer L. Armentrout
048dcb1 Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. world Margaret Atwood
daea7e7 It's not me but the world that's deranged. world life society Haruki Murakami
cd41800 Strange world isn't it? world Stephenie Meyer
423deb7 I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. unity world siddhartha knowledge Hermann Hesse
f0a8ae4 There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. courage world kindness life love inspirational fortitude brave precious stewardship grace deception kind eyes Marilynne Robinson
90d12e7 Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess. world problems Sue Monk Kidd
3f53259 It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out. A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help. want world heart inward inward-significance otherness outward-appearances grandeur understand help self Donna Tartt
eff6766 Every thing in this world exist to wear you down world life wear-down break Tite Kubo
2c845d8 There had never been a shortage of fools in the world world stephen-king stupid Stephen King
0644ecd I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. courage prayer world kindness jesus god life love inspirational fortitude praying brave prudence precious stewardship grace kind pray Marilynne Robinson
ad13f62 It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died. world death white Markus Zusak
fe23145 A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. world forest ecology word Ursula K. Le Guin
b5e08e4 Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last. hate world book-of-sketches jack-kerouac Jack Kerouac
58571dd You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. world siddhartha hesse Hermann Hesse
18f68bf The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world. world John Bunyan
93183c9 Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push--in just the right place--it can be tipped. world Malcolm Gladwell
626fbfb "But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one." world wisdom logic Haruki Murakami
49b9045 Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world. world Douglas Coupland
cdc34a6 The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. world dandelion-wine Ray Bradbury
77bea6f The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness. universe world pratchett forces Terry Pratchett
e143f00 Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him. world philosophy perspective Robin McKinley
20c8f48 I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all. understanding world puzzle Jeannette Walls
388dcb3 As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless. world life plans guns ideas weapons safety protection Colson Whitehead
2fcf495 There is a line somewhere in that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as I shot across the Bay Bridge not giving a fuck how fast I drove, that sums it up. That is high art: 'The world is awful.' That says it all. This is what we pay composers and painters and the great writers to do: tell us this; from figuring this out, they earn a living. What a masterful, incisive insight. What penetrating intelligence. A rat in a drain ditch could tell you the same thing, were it able to talk. If rats could talk, I'd do anything they said. dubious-revelation world Philip K. Dick
41f82cd Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you...Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed...Ah! realise your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar...Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing...The world belongs to you for a season...how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will last. The common hillflowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty, becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to...Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth. world youth life temptations Oscar Wilde
e22dd01 I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again? world Peter S. Beagle
6758fc3 LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways. LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world. What has usually been called the world is the male world. world lesbians worldview Kathy Acker
70d8543 My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. world living Charlotte Brontë
9e1d9dd "You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?" world sickness Philip K. Dick
0c29bf4 We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire... stars world science on revolution fire Cordwainer Smith
0ac05f9 Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved. suicide world papers news Haruki Murakami
7ee8b2b "Totus mundus agit histrionem. " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]" universe world stage William Shakespeare
447fab8 The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it. world shitpot Jim Thompson
c765a05 That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. illusion world unknown Virginia Woolf
086cf13 I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing! world tough nana Khaled Hosseini
1822024 The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away. time existence world Henry Miller
53fbeb3 What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more. world order Anthony Burgess
55bf816 They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor. money world truth position Libba Bray
2460907 I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. world Leo Tolstoy
91668b1 To world enough and time. time world love Audrey Niffenegger
6089d25 Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. men equality women-s-rights world women women-s-liberation gender Pearl S. Buck
f690325 When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self sat down on a bench and began to turn toward my real self, who was watching this hallucination on the screen of the night. My dead self came nearer, just as if it might want to shake hands with my real self. That's when I panicked and tried to run. But my dead self pursued me and finally caught me, entered me and controlled me. I'd felt then just the way I felt now. I felt as if a hole had opened in my head from which consciousness and memory leaked out and in their place the rash crowded in, and a cold like spoiled roast chicken. But that time before, shaking and clinging to the damp bench, I'd told myself, Hey, take a good look, isn't the world still under your feet? I'm on this ground, and on this same ground are trees and grass and ants carrying sand to their nests, little girls chasing rolling balls, and puppies running. world murakami japanese self Ryū Murakami
d11ab68 "Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)" world optimism Radclyffe Hall
de435c6 Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful. world life reflection Michael Cunningham
3aa2397 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. world atmosphere environment society Ludwig Wittgenstein
45061e5 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. world philosophy sense-of-self Margaret Atwood
64bc71f I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memory waiting to be swept away. I pray for forgetfulness, yet my memory remains strong, as does the outstretched arm of the oppressive air. It seems as if the wind has been there since the beginning of the nightmare. Sometimes loud and harsh, a thousand sharp needles scratching at my reddened skin. Sometimes a whisper, a curious sigh in the black of night, of words more frightening than pain. I know now the wind has been speaking to me. Only I couldn't understand because I was too scared. I am scared now as I write these words. Still, there is nothing else to do. world fear whispers wind needles forgetfulness dead nightmare memory Christopher Pike
7b1ed9c If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. library world order Alberto Manguel
cca4c04 We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing. progress world improvement Rachel Cohn
72623a7 "It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air." world extinction P.D. James
a8a4f50 It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side - just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can stand up on them and walk to the other side. words world other-side Markus Zusak
1725a72 "And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin" world Marion Zimmer Bradley
e63af64 In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. world books secret pages Alberto Manguel
b67dc21 "We haven't been too bad, have we?" "No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things." good world peace Ray Bradbury
4ea1a97 The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal. world participate Aimee Bender
550280e "She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry." "Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?" Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed off to the northwest, back toward the city and beyond that, the Rusty Ruins. "About a week's walk that way." "A week?" "That means seven days." "Yes, I know the gods' calendar," he said huffily. "But a whole week?" "Yeah. That's not so far, is it?" The hunters had been tireless on their march the night before. He shook his head, an awed expression on his face. "But that is beyond the edge of the world." time world funny Scott Westerfeld
819e210 Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ? kurds peacekeepers un world Jean Sasson
977a62b All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began. world trees mystery Charles de Lint
7f634ca I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. world Yann Martel
f78ddf7 There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world. world people wonder Kevin Brockmeier
b7c8479 Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? hate world Leo Tolstoy
1698ae6 Asa-i de cand lumea, ca cine se introspecteaza prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine insusi, in cele din urma, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine insusi, acela nu-i capabil sa ia o hotarare. world decision capability introspection Henryk Sienkiewicz
53e24e4 I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tangled up in everybody else's? world people stories Charles de Lint
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