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The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement
for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests.
We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction
of international tensions and would open the way
to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension.
We merely bring to the surface
the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fibers of all things have their tension
and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Tension is the great integrity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
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Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
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By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is a day to honor other cultures.
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We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us,
in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Adam Acone
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
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The cleansing fire of Spirit
consumes the troubles of this world.
Feed your concerns to the fire.
Breathe deeply and rejoice.
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I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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