"The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it."
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"The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul."
"Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?"
"If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world."
"To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace."
"There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else."
"Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile."
"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world."
"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."
"If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years."
"Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise."
"In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless."
"You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are."
"At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was."
"I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going."
"It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world."
"Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world."
"Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection."
"Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame."
"Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love."