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"It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem."
"I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively."
"And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels."
"If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations."
"...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else."
"In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us."
"If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it."
"I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it."
"The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world."
"But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine"
"You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world."
"Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?"
"If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society."
"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."
"Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished."
"Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself."
"In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks."
"I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world."
"Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world."