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"Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you."
"The world is no nursery."
"I have decided to tell the world that I accept my homosexuality and celebrate this gift that life has given me."
"I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working."
"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation."
"Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life."
"Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?"
"Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away."
"For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders."
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
"Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds."
"Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour"
"Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world."
"The power that dominates cannot solve world problems. The power that loves can solve world problems."
"Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world."
"Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye."
"This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me."
"I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all."
"I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems."
"I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world."
