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“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.”

People World Mind Believe Looks Long Light Fall Belief Understanding Loses Space Teaching This World Color Fool Don't Believe Insanity Far Away Falsehood Sage Prey Incense

Author:Bodhidharma

“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.”

Ifs Men World Heart May Soul Action This World Color Standing Determine Recognition Good Man Creeds Nationality Heart And Soul Bad Man

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.”

World Heart Soul Reality Joy This World Color Perfume

Author:Rumi

“If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.”

“If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.”

Ifs World Persons Pieces This World Color Planets Huge Harmony Working It Quilts Yarn Small Pieces

Author:Cicely Tyson

“The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.”

Thinking World Country Earth Christian This World Color Trials Delightful Abode

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...”

“Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.”

World Different Ends Film Imagination Millions Seeing This World Color Shots Location Characterization

Author:Anne Hathaway

“All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.”

Source: An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels

“I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.”

People World Writing Book Different Life Is Powerful Numbers This World Color Reader Weight Assuming Endless Height Different Peoples Escaping Manageable

Author:Philip K. Dick

“People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.”

People World This World Color Standing Standing Out Bright Colors

Author:Kanye West