This World Quotes - Page 37

• Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

  William James

  Effort, World, Contribution

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• Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, World, Duty

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• There are three levels of service. The highest level is that of one who performs good deeds the whole day and yet feels that he has not acheived anything. The second level is someone who, though he has not done anything, knows that he has not corrected anything in this world. This is good, and there is hope for him that he might correct his ways. However, someone who is righteous in his own eyes deceived himself all his life; his good deeds will be lost.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Eye, Three, Done

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• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

  Paul the Apostle

  Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life

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• There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer.

  Allison Mackie

  Two, People, World

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• Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, People, World

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• If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are.  You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you.  You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mirrors, Perfect, Looks

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• I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Nice, People, Evil

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• Just as all motion is from an unmovable cause, so everything divisible is from an indivisible cause. However, this visible, corporeal world is, assuredly, of a divisible nature, since what is corporeal is divisible. Therefore, this world is from an earlier, indivisible Cause.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  World, Causes, Indivisible

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• The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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• We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Kindness, Heart, Judging People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.

  Fanny Crosby

  Blessing, People, Soul

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.24, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Heart, Would Be, World

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• Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

  Josiah Royce

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking, Perfect, World

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.8, Sounds True

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• Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Jobs, People

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• I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.

  Torquil Campbell

  Dog, Kindness, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Political, Important

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• The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Atheist, People, Doubt

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1985). “Vintage Muggeridge: religion and society”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.

  Myles Munroe

  Unlimited Potential, World, Pregnant

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• I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

  Joseph Farah

  Defense, World, Littles

  Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.65, WND Books

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• When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Real, Genius, World

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• We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Ideas, Church

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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