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Worldly Quotes (page 312)

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate. John Muir
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read... Italo Calvino
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap. John Fowles
Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right. Ernest Gaines
Believe me, I have no please in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a drawback. Jane Austen
Maya Angelou quote: "The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh..."
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. Maya Angelou
Margaret Weis quote: "I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a..."
I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. Margaret Weis
Marilyn Manson quote: "All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves."
All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves. Marilyn Manson
You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death. Dan Millman
Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was, but now I know it is. John Steinbeck
We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live it. It allows you to concentrate your attention on the... Kim Stanley Robinson
Michael Ondaatje quote: "All I ever wanted was a world without maps."
All I ever wanted was a world without maps. Michael Ondaatje
Howard Thurman quote: "Don't ask what you can do for the world, ask what you can do..."
Don't ask what you can do for the world, ask what you can do to come alive Howard Thurman
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very..."
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where is the foundling’s father hidden? Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. Herman Melville

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