Quotes about the world
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“The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves.”

John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father

God

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

Clive Staples Lewis book Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)

God

“Today’s world might be lacking a new generation of educators whose mission would be to nourish love for life.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Love, Life, Education

“America is the police department for a World Zionist government”

David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon

Revolution by Number

“It is our duty to life, for the fact that we appeared in this beautiful world, to uphold the sanctity of every person's life.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Life, Beauty, Appearance, Personality

“If we stop fighting, terrorism will spread all over the world.”

Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader

As quoted in Massoud's Smile https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBR8V8YWEAI9OWu?format=jpg, by Hiromi Nagakura

Fight

“When you have 12 teams in an Olympics in comparison to a World Cup where you have double that amount of teams, I think every single team is going to be difficult.”

Alex Morgan (1989) American soccer player

"‘Soccer Mom’ Alex Morgan Back And Looking For Gold In Tokyo" https://www.teamusa.org/News/2021/July/08/Soccer-Mom-Alex-Morgan-Back-And-Looking-For-Gold-In-Tokyo (July 8, 2021)

Thinking

“It is all true that war is an evil thing, but there is no technologies without wars in the world. The motto of war is competition.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

War, Evil

“The word “democracy” is easier said than practised and that is the main factor which can turn our respected world leaders into manipulators.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Democracy

“You are complete as a man or as a woman. In other words, you have been given everything that is required of you to live in this world.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“I am not the body, but I still use the physical aspect to count the blessings of the Creator. I am not the mind, but I always use it to realise the Most High and the attachments of this bodily world.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“If the devil was really the master of the world, we would be dead before we knew it. He is also a citizen of the world, just like us.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Dead

“Imagine that Jesus died on the cross. But who will be immortal in this world, or are you not going to die too my dear friend?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Imagination

“The fear of death make people do all the stupid things in the world. You want protection from evil? But who will live forever?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Death, People, Stupidity, Fear

“The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“There is no need for words in the world of classical music. Silence speaks louder here.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Music, Silence

“To the atheist, the world is filled with madness and crazy people who believe in superstitions that cannot even prove to be true.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

People, Madness

“We live in the same world, but we experience different moods and weather conditions.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Mood, Weather

“Why would God decide to come into the world, that He created Himself, just to be killed by His own creations?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“I'm not the best person In the world, but I can tell you this: I Love Kids.”

Kadda Sheekoff

Love, Personality

“True is the word of the Lord which declares that no man possessing love for the world can acquire the love of God, nor can any who has communion with the world have communion with God, nor can any who has concern for the world have concern for God.”

Isaac of Nineveh (640–700) Eastern Orthodox saint

Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 428

Love, God

“I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes.”

Jesus (-7–30 BC) Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Christianity

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Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)

“Although the world is quiet, it does not mean that everything is going well. It can also mean that everyone is praying to God to make their tomorrow better, waiting for the situation to change, so that life becomes happy as before.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Life, God, Happiness, Change

“A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows also what he is waiting for, and while he waits he feasts his eyes on the world. The ultimate accomplishment of a warrior is joy.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

Waiting, Joy

“The great need in the world today is for for nations to so define their national interest that it makes for greater harmony, greater equality and justice and greater stability in the world.”

Indíra Gándhí (1917–1984) Indian politician and Prime Minister

Source: 1980 to Roy Jenkins < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHk9zoG6PXw

Justice

“The world is whatever you say it is if you know how to say it right.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“If i could change one thing about the world, it'd be:
Their thinking, because nowadays their thinking has become so sick that they do not see anything other than their religion. they keep fighting and quarreling with each other in the name of religion, they all forget that there is no greater religion than humanity. I want to change their thinking so that peace and harmony prevails between them.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Peace, Religion, Thinking, Change

“The world is narrow, broad the mind—
Thoughts dwell easily side by side
Things collide violently in space”

Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein

Act II, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)

“The mystery of the world's existence — the mystery of the emergence of self-organizing matter or the mystery of the beginning of its motion.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“All people and all organisations must collectively endeavour to uphold Human Values, and strive to make the world in which we live a better and far more harmonious place.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Others

People

“There can be no revolution without widespread and passionate destruction, a destruction salutary and fruitful precisely because out of it, and by means of it alone, new worlds are born and arise.”

Mikhail Bakunin book Statism and Anarchy

Source: Statism and Anarchy (1873)

Passion

“In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

God

“We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds. We got lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating–lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 7 Nature

Way, Home, Nature, Problem

“Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

Nature

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 1 Silence and Stillness

Sense

“It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.”

Karl Marx book The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto (1848), Preamble, paragraph 3.

Communication, Time

“Don't believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Misattributed Source: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/

“Considering the optimistic turn taken by world trade AT THIS MOMENT…it is some consolation at least that the revolution has begun in Russia, for I regard the convocation of 'notables' to Petersburg as such a beginning. … [O]n the Continent revolution is imminent and will, moreover, instantly assume a socialist character.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Source: Letter to Friedrich Engels (8 October 1858), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 40. Letters 1856–59 (2010), pp. 346–347

“We women have presented larger petitions in support of our enfranchisement than were ever presented for any other reform; we have succeeded in holding greater public meetings than men have ever held for any reform, in spite of the difficulty which women have in throwing off their natural diffidence, that desire to escape publicity which we have inherited from generations of our foremothers. We have broken through that. We have faced hostile mobs at street corners, because we were told that we could not have that representation for our taxes that men have won unless we converted the whole of the country to our side. Because we have done this, we have been misrepresented, we have been ridiculed, we have had contempt poured upon us, and the ignorant mob have been incited to offer us violence, which we have faced unarmed and unprotected by the safeguards which Cabinet Ministers enjoy. We have been driven to do this; we are determined to go on with this agitation because we feel in honour bound. Just as it was the duty of your forefathers, it is our duty to make the world a better place for women than it is to-day.”

Emmeline Pankhurst book My Own Story

My Own Story (1914), Book II, Ch. 3

Women, Men, Hostility, Feeling

“God died and His death was the life of the world.”

Philipp Mainländer (1841–1876) German poet and philosopher

Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Physik, § 38 ISBN 978-1494963262

Life, Death, God

“We must use our brains to overcome our brains. You are the solution to this crazy world we find ourselves in. Do everything you can to reach others. Teach. Elevate. Encourage critical thinking. But do it with kindness and understanding. People who believe crazy things are only guilty of being human. Remember this and show compassion.”

Guy P. Harrison (1963) American skeptic author

People, Understanding, Thinking

“Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time? But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

Wisdom, Intelligence, Knowledge, Time

“Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely. It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matters whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely. There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 5

Life, Education, Peace, Sense

“Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 2

Love, Life, Peace, Suffering

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21

Change

“When we say that “the world has ended,” remember—it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.”

N. K. Jemisin book The Stone Sky

Prologue “me, when I was I” (p. 2)
The Stone Sky (2017)

Lie

“The complexity of the world is not revealed by its simplification in human mind.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

Age

“Today, I seem to have developed a new, clear and sharper vision of my life and it's
events that were never evident to me pendant the moments that I was experiencing them as they occurred in my microcosmic world, where I was, "The Bubble Boy".
I felt that I had to clear myself of toxins which were spewed onto my entire existence through an insidious series of betrayals.
I have changed and evolved so much in my lifetime(s) and continue to everyday…every moment.
I have worked on MYSELF.
I have healed myself.
I have gotten to know who I am and know very clearly and sans doubt what a prodigious, rare and special catch I am for the correct person who will actually see and KNOW how fortunate they are to be with Me!
And I they…….. of course.
I am not nor never have I been an ordinary person in any shape or form……. I am black and white………. I possess a vast array of remarkable, innate and perfectly educated qualities which span from one end of the spectrum to the other.
I have lived the most extraordinary, privileged and charmed life. However I have experienced intense loss, pain and sorrow as well…most people are fortunate enough not to ever even be capable of fathoming such extremes."”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Life, Pain, People, Education

“If you don't live in the Moment;

You are looking Forward to Uncertainty

or Back to acute Pain, Fear, Regret and Remorse.

It is an Insane World…make it Simple.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Pain, Fear

“I have learned that…
you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life.
No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.
Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
There are so many ways of falling and staying in love.
No matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
Although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
Love is not for me to keep, but to pass on to the next person I see.
There are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I still have a lot to learn……”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Friendship, People

“I don’t know if watching your own work is a good or bad thing. I don’t know how much I learn from it. Each individual circumstance holds its own world of singularities and peculiarities. But among that, you can go: “Oh yeah, I remember that was what I tried to do.””

Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) English actor and film producer

Sometimes it doesn’t fit with the cast or the energy of the scene or the beat of another character. But to sit down in the audience and go: “Oh my God, I think that was what I intended”, was great. "Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I loved not being a people-pleaser’" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/17/benedict-cumberbatch-i-loved-not-being-a-people-pleaser (17 December 2021)

Learning

“Our country needs to go forward, not to go back. I promise to build a Somalia that is in harmony with itself and is in harmony with the world.”

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955) President of Somalia; PDP Chairman; educator; civic, academic, and political activist

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (2022) cited in " Somalia Elects New President, but Terrorists Hold True Power https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/world/africa/somalia-election-president.html" on The New York Times, 15 May 2022.

Country

“This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.”

Desiderius Erasmus The Complaint of Peace

The Complaint of Peace (1521)

Country

“I'm a problem that'll never ever be solved I'm a monster, I'm a maven
I know this world is changing
Never gave in, never gave up
I'm the only thing I'm afraid of
No matter what, you'll never take that from me
My reign is as far as your eyes can see, it's amazing.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Amazing
Lyrics, 808s & Heartbreak (2008)

Problem, Change

“Good morning and look at the valedictorian
Scared of the future while I hop in the DeLorean
Scared to face the world, complacent career student
Some people graduate, but be still stupid”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Good Morning
Lyrics, Graduation (2007)

People, Stupidity, Future

“Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”

Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) Italian Dominican saint

quoted in [LifeSite, The heart of the Catholic Church's current crisis is the abandonment of law and doctrine - LifeSite, 2022-06-07, 2022-05-05, https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-heart-of-the-catholic-churchs-current-crisis-is-the-abandonment-of-law-and-doctrine/] Variant versions: I see the world is rotten because of silence … speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills. (quoted at 0:23 of [Randall Terry, The Silence That Kills, 2022-06-07, 2020-10-19, 23:29, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2ncPIgui0]) Original Italian: Oimé, non più tacere! Gridate con centomiglia di lingue. Veggo che, per lo tacere, el mondo è guasto, la Sposa di Cristo è impalidita ( Lettera 16, "A uno grande prelato" http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/eki.htm#q) lit.: "O alas, be silent no more! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that, through silence, the world is broken, the Bride of Christ is impaled"

Truth, Silence

“The world changes around us
but we still linger,
through wars and seasons we run
but we still linger,
it's so tempting
to climb that fence,
to see if you'd finally relent.”

Marian Renta

Music lyrics, Great Deep (2021) —"Linger"

War, Change, Season

“When we resort to violence ... we lose sight of why we are in the world and even end up committing senseless acts of cruelty. We see this in the folly of war, where Christ is crucified yet another time.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

"In the Palm Sunday Mass, Pope Francis pushes for peace in Ukraine" in NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/04/10/1091929949/palm-sunday-pope-francis-ukraine (10 April 2022) 2020s, 2022

War, Time, Christ

“The world has already seen many war crimes. At different times. On different continents. But it is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of such evil on earth.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

2022, Make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of this evil on earth (3 April 2022)

War, Evil, Time

“The only way to cope with other people's disconnection (because it is so painful) is to become disconnected yourself. But then you become part of the problem. You make the world more dangerous and less conducive to the wellbeing of all life on earth.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Life, Pain, People, Way

“⁠The surrounding world is different for each of us, despite moving in a common world”

Pedro Fernando book Train To Save The World

Pedro Fernando, Book Train To Save The World (2022) - (PAULO FERNANDO FAZENDA MANUEL)

“God does not want us to be slaves, but sons and daughters. He does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws. No! He created us to be free, and he asks us to be mature and responsible persons in life and in society.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2022

Life, God, Law, Exercises

“[T]he supremacy of the Brahmins maintains doctrinal orthodoxy; the revolt of the Kshatriyas leads to heterodoxy; but with the domination of the lower castes comes intellectual night, and this is what in our day has become of a West that threatens to spread its own darkness over the entire world.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), p. 30

Night

“We need to strategize how we can live in a world beyond nukes, because there will never be peace as long as these weapons exist.”

Abby Martin (1984) American journalist

Interview https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/20/what-are-the-prospects-for-peace-an-interview-with-abby-martin/ with Counterpunch (2021)

Peace

“Leave the world and live your life.”

Engr.Abah Sule

Life

“" Love is the most greatest thing on earth that everlast, love from God to his word, from his words, to a man, from a man to his world. " -Abah Sule, P. E LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING AN ENEMY INTO A FRIEND."”

Engr.Abah Sule

Love, God

“When we understand that Who We Are is pure energy, the Essential Essence of Life itself, and that this energy not only composes us and comprises us, but is projected through us, from us, and outward into the world…and when we understand furthermore that energy affects other energy, that all energy impacts other energy…then we begin to understand that how we think about a thing determines how the thing is, and continues to be.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Life, Understanding, Thinking

“All of life is spiritual, and therefore all of life's problems are spiritually based, and spiritually solved. The only peace in all the world that is sustaining is Internal Peace.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Life, Peace, Problem

“Cause everyone whose life you touch to feel worthy. Give everyone a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Life, Feeling, Sense, Personality

“That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

Context: Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for

Fight

“The writer is not only the conscience of the world, but also its nightmare.”

Teodor Burnar

“Can you see other people's battles as your own? There are so many similarities in every war in this world. Some are fighting for freedom and independence. Some fight for principles and ideals. But there are also those who fight only for their blind faith and ego.”

Titon Rahmawan

War, People, Faith, Freedom

Titon Rahmawan

War, People, Faith, Freedom

“Nature is the greatest healer, by reconnecting back to nature, we begin changing the world all around us. We begin living from the inside out, breathing in the beautiful 'Chi,' becoming peaceful, developing serenity within ourselves, and that will make this planet a much more harmonious place to live in.”

Ralph Smart

Peace, Beauty, Nature, Change

“The truth will hit you like a smack in the face, but it will be the best smack in the world.”

Ralph Smart

Truth

“Imperfections make us unique in the world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le imperfezioni ci rendono unici al mondo.
Source: prevale.net

“There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, and next to love the sweetest thing is hate.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Love, Hate

“Принцип «око за око» сделает весь мир слепым. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

“Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love.
Sunshine on ice.
She warms his frost. He cools her fever.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Love, Spring, Winter, Perfection

“If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

Joy

“I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Feeling, Time

“I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Love, Life, Death, Thinking

“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”

Charles Portis book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 37 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

God, Way

“If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Variant: If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Source: The Longest Ride

Life, Search, Thinking, Romantic

“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Beauty

“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

According to Ruskin scholar George P. Landow, there is no evidence that this quotation or its variants can be found in any of Ruskin's works.
[Landow, George P., A Ruskin Quotation?, VictorianWeb.org, 2007-07-27, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html, 2013-01-07]
Disputed

Law, Personality