"Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms."
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"The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it."
"The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection."
"This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores."
"And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world."
"In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses."
"The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world"
"Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world."
"It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world."
"Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World."
"[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world."
"Eye for eye and the world will go blind."
"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
"There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone."
"My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world."
"The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be changed. He who changes it will destroy it. He who seizes it will lose it."
"I am the worlds laziest writer."
"Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity"
"You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world."
"The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win."