“Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.”

— Patrick Rothfuss , book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

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American fantasy writer 1973

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

“Peace needs to be in everyone's life. Of all the things we have tried in this world, there is one thing we have never given a chance. That one thing is peace. If we want to hope for something, maybe we could hope in our heart that peace will come in our life. The peace that we are looking for is within. It is in the heart, waiting to be felt, and I can help you get in touch with it. It is not the world that needs peace; it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Undated
Source: Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Rawat.

“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Source: Rabbit Redux

“There isn't one thing in the world hot and hard as knowing there's someone waiting, coming, pressing, wanting you.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part III, Ch.1 - p.199
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.”

Hal David (1921–2012) American lyricist

Song What the World Needs Now is Love (1965)

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.”

Jackie DeShannon (1941) American singer-songwriter

"What the World Needs Now is Love" (1965); this song was actually written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and offered to other singers who initially passed it up. It became DeShannon's first number one hit.
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