Our World Quotes - Page 20

• Seeing how many people in our world today are focused on doing good in this world for others, especially in the younger generation and how passionate they feel about making a difference. What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Helping Others, Differences, People

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.

  Sam Hamill

  Writing, Chance, Ass

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.

  William Mapother

  Crazy, Writing, Other Worlds

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Children, Giving Up, Father

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drama, Believe, Order

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Heart, Wings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Photography, Latin, Mean

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• God, our world is so complicated.

  Regina Spektor

  World, Complicated

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

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• In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.

  Nelly Furtado

  Share, Favourite, Bigs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

  Zulay Henao

  Kings, Attitude, Self

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

  Pope Francis

  War, Refugee Crisis, Decision

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

  David Morrell

  Long, Thrillers, Teach

  Source: bookpage.com

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• And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Plato, Philosophy, Violence

  "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away". Book by Rebecca Goldstein, 2014.

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• That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Color, Smell

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• [If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

  Mario Batali

  Italian, Culture, Attention

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Voice, Accountability

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

  Edward Snowden

  Moving Forward, Reality, Decision

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.

  Kathy Change

  Real, America, Liberty

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• When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our air, our trees, our fellow species-it becomes clear that unless you have some roots in a spiritual practice that holds life sacred and encourages joyful communion with all your fellow beings, facing the enormous challenges ahead becomes nearly impossible.

  Joanna Macy

  Spiritual, Practice, Roots

  Joanna Macy (2013). “Greening of the Self”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world. But in any case, there's absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it's going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you're alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  "A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. September 16, 2010.

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• The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

  Jacinto Benavente

  Simplicity, Size, Masters

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• Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Mean, Practice, Energy

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• Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

  Megan Fox

  Media, Voice, Humanity

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?

  Morgan Freeman

  Crazy, Design, Mind

  "Morgan Freeman Takes You 'Through The Wormhole'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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