Our World Quotes - Page 37

• My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together of the one billion young people in our world today, we will be enough to set our whole planet aglow.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Moving, Light, People

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• It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

  Mary Antin

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Independent, Eight

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

  Peter Thiel

  Retail, Might, Madness

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy is on the rise in our world.

  Shakti Gawain

  Energy, Shifting, Surrender

  Shakti Gawain (1993). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, Nataraj Publishing

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• Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

  Rob Bell

  Opposites, People, Goal

  "The Gift of Doubt" by Shea Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2015.

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• The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.

  Arianna Huffington

  Fearless, Spirit, Personal Life

  "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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• What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

  Morris Dees

  Unique, Color, Rainbow

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• Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Moving, Magic

  "The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, 1991.

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• We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

  David Lynch

  Goal, Creative, Musician

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• Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

  Jon Foreman

  Order, True Life, Down And

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• Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

  Mircea Eliade

  Reality, Men, Religion

  "Das Heilige und das Profane". Book by Mircea Eliade, 1957.

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• The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

  Gary Haugen

  Passion, Long, Joy

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  Jack Hanna

  Animal, People, Important

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost reponses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart.

  Joanna Macy

  Heart, Soul, Hunger

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• The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Justice, Temptation

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Reading, World

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• The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Healing, Optimistic, Capacity To Love

  "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Fall, Faces

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• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Goal, Choices

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• Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Eye, Animal

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• For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Thinking, Achievement, Humanity

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• Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.

  Sarah Polley

  Race, Dawn, Faces

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