"As we are - the world is."
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"The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself."
"A song is the most intangible thing in the world."
"You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere"
"To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us."
"And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened."
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
"Art changes people people change the world."
"The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us."
"When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us."
"...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best."
"Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world."
"So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out."
"Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last."
"I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it."
"When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?"
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
"The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet."
"Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it."
"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."