"I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings."
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"When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists."
"The biggest in the world is small in its beginning."
"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."
"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."
"There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win."
"And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words."
"Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end."
"Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!"
"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."
"Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism."
"Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing."
"He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist."
"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them."
"The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us."
"The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it."
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
"Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world."
"In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love."