74 quotes
“The world is like a book. If you do not read, you do not know a single page.”
— Saint Augustine
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”
— Desmond Tutu
“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“At some point in life the beauty of the world is enough.”
— Toni Morrison
“The more light you allow within you the brighter the world you live in will be.”
— Shakti Gawain
“The most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itself”
— Wallace Stevens
“Be wise because the world needs more wisdom and be kind because the world needs kindness more”
— Neil Gaiman
“Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world.”
— Paulo Freire
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through compassion”
— Anne Frank
“Beauty will save the world”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world”
— Marianne Williamson
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion so lead with kindness”
— Paulo Coelho
“Do your little bit of good where you are for it is those little bits that overwhelm the world with compassion”
“Dont ask yourself what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
— Howard Thurman
“In a gentle way you can shake the world through persistent acts of compassion”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate and it fills us with wonder when we see it clearly”
— Wendell Berry
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“A man sees the world as he thinks.”
— Anthony de Mello
“The world is not only stranger than we suppose it is stranger than we can suppose and that strangeness is wonder”
— Terence McKenna
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happy is the family which can make an entire world of its own circle.”
— Ovid
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Transform yourself to transform the world”
— Grace Lee Boggs
“For the world is only the desert which needs the oasis of friendship”
— Hannah Arendt
“Each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive”
— Anais Nin
“Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Even a small window is a wormhole to a world beyond our imagining.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The world is a stage but the play is badly cast and only wonder makes the performance worth watching”
— Oscar Wilde
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
— Confucius
“I had a lovers quarrel with the world”
— Robert Frost
“The world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wide”
— Edna St Vincent Millay
“The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it that flower becomes your world full of wonder”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world.”
— Martha Nussbaum
“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the simplest and greatest accomplishment”
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”
— James Allen
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy with kindness”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller
— Augustine
“The world out there is a reflection of who you are inside”
— Deepak Chopra
“We heal the world one heart at a time starting with our own and that is enough”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“In a gentle way you can shake the world and wonder is the gentlest force of all”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Everyone thinks of changing the world for peace but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”
“The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder itself”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“To put the world right in order we must first put the family in order.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
“With realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.”
— Dalai Lama
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
— Albert Einstein
“When you are healed you can help heal the world and when you help heal the world you are healed yourself”
— Bernie Siegel
“In the struggle between yourself and the world back the world”
— Franz Kafka
“For the world is in a bad state but everything will become still worse unless each of us does our best with kindness”
— Viktor Frankl
“You need not leave your room remain sitting at your table and listen do not even listen simply wait be quiet still and solitary the world will freely offer itself to you”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
“Peace in oneself peace in the world.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
— Harold Kushner
“The world is not what I think, but what I live through.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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