World Quotes

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

A world without love would be no world.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said let’s not do these things anymore — let’s have fun.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

You have to hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world: this is something you are free to do and is in accord with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering that you might be able to avoid.