"Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."
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"Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything."
"Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?"
"Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray."
"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
"Because he (the Sage) opposes no one, no one in the world can oppose him."
"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places."
"The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible."
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!"
"The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others."
"All over this world people are standing up for freedom."
"If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body."
"In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind."
"I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by."
"Literature exists because the world isn't enough."
"And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me."
"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
"An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly."
"Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves."
"Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity."