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Worldly Quotes (page 204)

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about. James Clavell
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God. Vance Havner
J. K. Rowling quote: "Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that..."
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world. J. K. Rowling
Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences." Sherlock Holmes, The Problem of Thor Bridge Arthur Conan Doyle
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live Bertrand Russell
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed! Margaret Mitchell
We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love the? How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the least moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Rainer Maria Rilke
The cause of right is never lost, Leal. I've often thought the biggest damned fool in the world could to down in history as a great man if he would just consistently vote for the greatest good of the greatest number - Kilkenny Louis L'Amour
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor. Anne Lamott
Sylvia Plath quote: "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I think I made..."
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I think I made you up inside my head. Sylvia Plath
John Muir quote: "Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes..."
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing John Muir
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing.. Nicholas Sparks
Karl Kraus quote: "How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell..."
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. Karl Kraus
I wish there could be an international peaceconference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my ownconviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in nosmall measure on them and on the librarians. Christopher Morley
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie. Cornelia Funke

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