"The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world."
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"Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here."
"When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be."
"Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified."
"I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world."
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."
"Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel."
"One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days."
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."
"The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul"
"The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world."
"The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us."
"The Bible makes the best people in the world."
"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world."
"One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them."
"That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely."
"The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world."
"I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it."
"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping."
"There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight."