This World Quotes - Page 4

• When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Doe, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.179, Penguin

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• To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Mean, Perfect

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• To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Yield, World

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

  Simone Weil

  Time, Would Be, World

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.198, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Everyone has an opinion. That's just a crazy part of this world now. You can type things on the internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want. I know where I come from and where I want to go. I know I'm 100% ready. Everyone else seems to have an opinion, and claim to know, whether I am or I'm not. I would love to see all the people who run their mouths try and do what I do. Because they can't.

  Roman Reigns

  Running, Crazy, Smart

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Jobs, Years

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• Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Dressing Up

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• Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Circles, World, Body

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• A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Destiny, Mastery, World

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• The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Atheism, World, Woe

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• You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, World

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• Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Inspire, Police, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.268, Princeton University Press

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• There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Morning, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.119, Fawcett

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• I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

  Lil Wayne

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich and Paris Hilton, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

  Tom Morello

  People, World, Made

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Giving, Important

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  World, Money Power, More Money

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• A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Goes On, World, Pot

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, World, Want

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.160, Vintage

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• Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mean, Gossip

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• I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sea, Heaven, World

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• All that in this world is great or gay,
  Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

  Edmund Spenser

  Gay, Decay, World

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• The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Duty, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.197

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• The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

  May Sarton

  Compassion, Suffering, World

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.185, Open Road Media

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