Our World Quotes - Page 38

• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Compassion, Long, Poverty

  Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

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• When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Fall, Faces

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• The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

  Jon Foreman

  Today, Problem, Postmodern

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• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Goal, Choices

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.

  Joanna Macy

  Heart, Soul, Hunger

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• Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Eye, Animal

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• Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Change, Powerful, Profound

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

  Christopher Locke

  Death, Color, Television

  Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls (2009). “The Cluetrain Manifesto”, p.73, Basic Books

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• People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Interesting, Perspective

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• There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, 'This isn't the way.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Believe

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• The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Justice, Temptation

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• By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Reading, World

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• Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything?

  Joe Tye

  Girl, Pain, Hate

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• When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because theres a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of The Vampire Diaries where Tyler is the first successful hybrid thats made.

  Michael Trevino

  Responsibility, Successful, Vampire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.

  Billy Graham

  Years, Crumbling, Needs

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 10, 2014

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• Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

  Terence McKenna

  Names, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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• Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, New Year, Years

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• Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

  Brené Brown

  World, Littles, Kinder

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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• The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

  George H. W. Bush

  Change, Hope, Freedom

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• A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

  Pope Francis

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Doe, Calling

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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