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"A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word."
"While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one"
"Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves."
"We save the world by being alive ourselves."
"Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world"
"We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!"
"Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace."
"Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world."
"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world."
"The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday."
"I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different."
"How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head."
"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
"The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world."
"What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd."
"I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't."
"A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady."
"When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world."
"The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane."
"The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world."
