"Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world ."
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"Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while."
"In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty."
"Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead."
"If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all."
"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world."
"I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses."
"But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world."
"The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways."
"The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next"
"If you want to change the world, help the women."
"Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path."
"The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world."
"That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other."
"What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!"
"If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler."
"The world makes up my pictures, not me."
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
"Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders."
"In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."