I Quotes
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“In this world only the paranoid survive.”
“In this world, people actually don't live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love.”
“In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.”
“In this world, people crucify a person first and then they worship him as God”
“In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.”
Source: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
“In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.”
“In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“In this world sometimes the things we hate are the things we need, for I can only learn to live ‘through’ the difficulties in life by having lived ‘in’ them.”
“In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.”
“In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.”
“In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.”
“In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything.”
“In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.”
“In this world, 'the one' who knows the art of learning from each good - bad incident and who can patiently await the final outcome of each event; 'he' soon realizes that whatever happens here, can never be wrong.”
“In this world, the only easy path is the course of least resistance. This is the path always taken by a stream of water as it seeks lower and lower ground. It will never go over an obstacle, and even when it has to go around one, water will always find the easiest way around, the way that requires as little work as possible. This, you have have noticed, is what makes rivers crooked, and it makes men and women crooked too. The easy path never goes anywhere but downward, and spiritually, that is not the direction we want to go. Worthwhile destinations always take extra effort.”
Source: Reaching Forward: Daily Motivation to Move Ahead More Steadily
“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“In this world, the phrase ‘we belong to each other’ is more than an ideal—it is a way of life.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“In this world, the pursuit of dreams leads to a life so painful and frustrating the mere thought of it is enough to merit a sigh.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 3
“In this world, the smallest of the particle or even a mosquito does not exist without a reason. In this universe, if someone is living without any reason, it is none other than a human being... But then there is no one more intelligent than him either.”
“In this world, the thing people fear the most, and what pains people the most— is giving more than they receive. God forbid I cut off more of my fingernail for you than you cut from your fingernail, for me! Heaven forbid I hold my breath in longer while thinking about you, than the amount of time your breath is held in for me! Not a second longer! It is sad fact of the human nature that there you stand as an Infinite Soul and yet your greatest fear is not receiving from another person in proportion to what you give. Your viewpoint is low, your vision is clouded. You have become, in your eyes, a funny little drawing on the paper pad of the universe. Indeed, this race is yet to evolve. And yet, I am surrounded by such fear, to such a great extent that I begin to fear the same!”
“In this world, there are countless external factors that steer our approach to life. Understand what steers you.”
“In this world there are many, many situations where giving someone something doesn't necessarily mean you'll receive anything in return. When you choose to give, you must remember this, or else the only one heart will be you.”
“In this world there are many, many situations where giving someone something doesn't necessarily mean you'll receive anything in return. When you choose to give, you must remember this, or else the only one hurt will be you.”
Source: Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel), Vol. 2
“In this world, there are no places where chit (internal component of knowledge and vision) can be focused on. Without being fixed, a chit cannot be contented. There are places where the mind can become fixed, but there is no place where chit can become fixed.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“In this world, there are only a few things more available than gasoline: coffee, soda and beer. Oh, and bad advice.”
Source: Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast
“In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya”
Source: 終焉の栞 [Shuuen no Shiori]
“In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.”
Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace
“In this world there are two types of people: the ones who hurt, and the ones who are hurt. But if we all claim to be the victims, then aren't we all the criminals too?”
“In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.”
“In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.”
Source: Four Plays by Bernard Shaw
“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was teh way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
Source: 1Q84
“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
Source: 1Q84
“In this world,
there is no purifier
like wisdom;
in time, one who is
oneself perfected
by yoga
finds that wisdom
in the self.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.”
“In this world, there is not absolute good, no absolute evil. Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good maybe transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa.”
Source: 1Q84
“In this world, there is nothing that ‘I’ like, nor is there anything that ‘I’, dislike!”
Source: The Essence Of All Religion
“In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.”
“In this world, there is only one happiness and that is to be yourself. And because nobody is himself, everybody is trying somehow to hide, with masks, with pretensions and with hypocrisy. They are being taught everything in the education system, but they are not taught to be themselves.
This is what makes everybody miserable. To be what you do not want to be, to do something that you do not want to do. These things are the basis of all misery. Sooner or later, you have to decide. You have to
say: Whatever the cost, I want to be myself. Condemned, ridiculed, losing respectability, everything is ok, but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else. This decision and declaration of freedom, freedom from
the weight of the crowd of people, gives back your natural being. Then you can simply be yourself just as you are.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”
Source: The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction
“In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.”
“in this world there probably isn't anyone whom you can dislike from the heart!”
Source: Gokinjo - Une vie de quartier, Volume 2
“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.”
Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“In this world, those who value Peace more than Justice deserve neither.”
“In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness.”
Source: Young Jane Young
“In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved.”
“In this world, we are surrounded by fast-paced, empty static energy. They're like the empty calories of the soul. You have empty calories for your body, like a bag of potato chips for example, then you have empty calories for your soul, which are found in the static energy that doesn't really add to our emotional, spiritual, mental experience of living our lives. We have magical moments of connection with people, with nature, with Spirit, but then we rush out of those moments all too fast, in order to go straight back into the busy lanes that are full of things not worthwhile! Empty energies! So when we do that, we forget our magical, nourishing soul moments all too fast and we start caring about things that we shouldn't care about too much, stepping outside of the moments of eternity that we encounter, and going back into the empty noise. So I think that we need to picture ourselves as rocks in the river; we can let all of that rush by us, while we stay fortified where we are, lingering in the warmness of the noontime sun, the chill of the dawn , the reflections of dusk— like a rock in a river— let it all just rush by. Be magic.”
“In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.”
“In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.”