
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Ramana Maharshi
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Ramana Maharshi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.Abdul Sattar Edhi

Peace at home, peace in the world.Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.Amartya Sen

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.Malala Yousafzai

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in the world when we love it.Rabindranath Tagore

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.Miyamoto Musashi

Give me a thousand old men and I will move Mount Semeru from its place. Give me ten young men and I will shake the world.Sukarno

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.William Shakespeare

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.Oscar Wilde

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.J.R.R. Tolkien

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.George Bernard Shaw

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.J.M. Barrie

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.Anne Frank

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.Karl Marx

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.Henrik Ibsen

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela

The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.Gabriel García Márquez

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.Bob Marley

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.Desmond Tutu

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.V. S. Naipaul

Nothing in the world is softer than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong.Lao Tzu

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller

This world is not going to change unless we are willing to change ourselves.Rigoberta Menchú

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.Jiddu Krishnamurti

In this world we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers.Kobayashi Issa

This world of dew is a world of dew — and yet, and yet...Kobayashi Issa

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.Akira Kurosawa

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.Ibn Sina

I want our nation to be the most beautiful in the world — not the most powerful, but the most beautiful.Kim Gu

There are other sorrows in this world besides the sorrows of love.Faiz Ahmed Faiz

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.W. B. Yeats

All the happiness in this world arises from wishing others to be happy; all the suffering arises from wishing oneself to be happy.Shantideva

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.Émile Zola
The world is always in movement.V. Naipaul
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.William Shakespeare
Imagination rules the world.Napoleon Bonaparte
Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.Elizabeth Browning
In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.Gautama Buddha
The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.H. W. Arnold
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.Augustine of Hippo
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.Helen Keller
Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.Arthur Schopenhauer
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.Shirdi Sai Baba
With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.Dalai Lama
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.James Barrie
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Miller
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Muir
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.Helen Keller
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.Ivy Baker Priest
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.Bruce Lee
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.Robert Louis Stevenson
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.Thomas Carlyle
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.Helen Keller
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.Gautama Buddha
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.Gautama Buddha
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.William Shakespeare
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.Lao Tzu
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.Shakti Gawain
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.T. S. Eliot
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.Blaise Pascal
The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.Henry Miller
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.Margaret Laurence
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.Lao Tzu
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.Robert M. Pirsig
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.Napoleon Hill
You can't choose up sides on a round world.Wayne Dyer
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.Booker T. Washington
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.H. Bertram Lewis
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.Saul Alinsky
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.Epictetus
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.Anthony Robbins
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.Albert Schweitzer
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.Chuang Tzu
The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.Dalai Lama
All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.William Shakespeare
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.Richard Bach
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.Helen Keller
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.Harriet Tubman
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.Albert Einstein
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.Mahatma Gandhi
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.Rabindranath Tagore
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.Daisaku Ikeda
The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.Edward Ericson
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.Hannah Senesh
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.Jane Addams
You really can change the world if you care enough.Marian Edelman
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.David Attenborough
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.David Attenborough
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.David Attenborough
When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.Alexander Fleming
Why do I find no peace of mind? There was, after all, only one person in the whole world.Jaun Elia
Success is achieved twice: once in the mind, and the second time in the real world.Azim Premji
I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.Azim Premji
To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.Diego Maradona
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.Marilyn Monroe
Remember, your work may be only to sweep a railway crossing, but it is your duty to keep it so clean that no other crossing in the world is as clean as yours.M. Visvesvaraya

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.William Shakespeare

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.Swami Vivekananda

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.Mary Shelley

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.James Joyce

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson

World peace must develop from inner peace.Dalai Lama

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.Wayne Dyer

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.Napoleon Hill

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.Albert Einstein

Talent is formed in stillness, character in the world.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.Kurt Vonnegut

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.Angela Davis

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.Epictetus

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.Mahatma Gandhi

The evil that is in the world comes almost always from ignorance.Albert Camus

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw

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

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.Mother Teresa