Our World Quotes - Page 31

• So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

  Wess Stafford

  Two, Excess, Obesity

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.177, WaterBrook

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• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Lonely, Teacher

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Cutting, Carpe Diem, Discipline

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• Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

  Ronald Goldman

  World, Knows

  Ronald Goldman (1997). “Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma : how an American Cultural Practice Affects Infants and Ultimately Us All”

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• In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  God, Spiritual, Years

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (1993). “The revelation: our crisis is a birth”

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• When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Maturity, Childhood

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4096, Delphi Classics

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• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer" edited by Barry J. Farber, (p. 38), 2003.

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• Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Life, Friday, Lying

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• We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Peace, Home

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• Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Prayer, Wall

  Max Lucado (2007). “Max on Life: Discovering the Power of Prayer: Discovering the Power of Prayer”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

  Audre Lorde

  Differences, Empowering, Feminist

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.

  David Bryant

  Christian, Church, Missionary

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• We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

  David Warlick

  Education, Teacher, Technology

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• Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

  Henry Drummond

  Friendship, Inspirational Friendship, World

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• Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

  Jim Wallis

  Christian, Inspiration, Two

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

  Doc Hastings

  Veterans Day, War, Our Veterans

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• Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Gratitude, Art, Healing

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• Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

  Sam Harris

  Eye, Reality, Psychopath

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• Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Laughter

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Creativity, Responsibility, Self

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jan 25, 2013

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• If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

  Sheryl Crow

  Kindness, Helping Others, Compassion

  "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

  Arthur Golden

  Ocean, Struggle, Suffering

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• We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.72, Hachette UK

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