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"You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me."
"Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down."
"Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop."
"There are responsibilities which are parental responsibilities and those are the types of things we prepare the next generation for, but no one tells you how to answer the kids' questions in the backseat of the car when they want to know what the world is for or where they came from or why any of this is happening."
"All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration."
"The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body."
"If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world."
"If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man."
""Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources."
"I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise."
"It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves."
"The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary."
"All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak."
"The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves."
"If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains"
"God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner."
"If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you."
"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
"It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world."
"If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife."
