World Quotes

Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it.

Oh, you fool. You turned cold and stopped loving when the world needed it most.

If you want to see the world as it should be, read poetry.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath so what does that make today worth?

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We’re taught that you have to grab what you can before it’s gone. It’s almost as if there isn’t time for compassion.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.