Quotes about the world
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“I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)”

Yumi Tamura Manga artist

Source: Basara, Vol. 13

Truth, Fear, Freedom

“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.'
'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”

Meg Rosoff (1956) American-British children's writer

Source: The Bride's Farewell

Love, Solitude

“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

“the world is my idea”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Idea

“We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Life, Reality, Universe

“If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”

Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand author

Source: Towards Another Summer

Falseness

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two —
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Beauty, Waiting

“Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”

Stephen King book Rage

Source: Rage

Pain, Tree, Time, Hurt

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Idea, Time

“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

God, Girl

“If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian”

Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues

Source: Stone Butch Blues

Thinking

“The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“I can see! So this is the sky! So this is blood! So this is the world! So this is what you look like, Komamura. You are uglier than I thought." -Kaname Tousen (I'm sorry to say but this quote had me laughing so much XD)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Quotes

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)

Love, Light, Silence

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Dreams, Imagination

“It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl”

Diane Duane book High Wizardry

Source: High Wizardry

Children, Universe

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Episode 1, Opening introduction voice-over
The Power of Myth (1988)

God, Travel, Time

“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

'Notes On Journalism' http://books.google.com/books?id=52L2eI9mwlcC&q=&quot;No+one+in+this+world+so+far+as+I+know+and+I+have+searched+the+record+for+years+and+employed+agents+to+help+me+has+ever+lost+money+by+underestimating+the+intelligence+of+the+great+masses+of+the+plain+people&quot;&pg=PA28#v=onepage in the Chicago Tribune ( 19 September 1926 http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1926/09/19/page/87/article/notes-on-journalism) The first sentence is often paraphrased as "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." (The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, p. 512) 1920s Source: Gist of Mencken

Money, People, Intelligence, Help

“And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

People, Flowers, Appearance

“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

“And the first rude sketch that the world has seen
was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art?”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

The Conundrum of the Workshops, Stanza 1 (1890).
Other works
Source: The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
Context: When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, “It's pretty, but is it Art?”

Art, Heart, Joy

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”

Peter Ackroyd (1949) English author

Source: English Music

Sea

“It doesn’t feel like the end of the world. (Davyn)
No, it doesn’t…(Stryker)
How does the song go, ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine? (Apollymi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Feeling

“Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.”

Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer

Perfection

“I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was too much for me.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti book A Coney Island of the Mind

Source: A Coney Island of the Mind

“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. Then he hopes to attract others into it. He hopes to impose his particular vision and share it with others. And when the second stage is not reached, the brave artist continues nevertheless. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others, in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely. We write as the birds sing, as the primitives dance their rituals. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

“No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Thinking

“I don't think there is such a thing as
an intelligent mega-rich
person.

For who with a fine mind can look
out upon this world and
hoard

what can nourish
a thousand
souls.”

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet

Soul, Intelligence, Thinking, Personality

“Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!"
"Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.”

Carolyn Keene book Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Girl

“Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.”

François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian

Love

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Effort

“It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

Beauty

“Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to its rest.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Sabbaths

“I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Time

“You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Personality

“My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Women, Men, Peace, Forgiveness

“Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)”

Brandon Sanderson book Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

Source: CryoBurn

People

“Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Error

“The thing about changing the world… Once you do it, the world's all different.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

Change

“As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Happiness, Way

“Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom?”

Kate DiCamillo The Magician's Elephant

Source: The Magician's Elephant

Love, Truth, Star

“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Context: In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.

Love, Men, Hate, Understanding

“I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.”

Ahmed Rashid book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Source: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

“Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Star

“In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

Books, Color, Sense, Reading

“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Imagination

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

People

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Men

Source: Little Men

Happiness, Heart

“It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

Source: Golden Fool

Way, Parting

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Dr. Seuss book Happy Birthday to You!

Variant: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Source: Happy Birthday to You!

Life, Good Morning, Heart Touching, Powerful

“If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).”

Cal Newport (1982) American computer scientist

Source: So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Love, Passion

“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”

Lev Grossman The Magician King

Source: The Magician King

Change

“Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

Fate

“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Suffering

“Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Idea

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Money, Way

“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelström of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;
And in small compass the dark waters cram.”

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator

Source: Collected Poems

God, Water, Passion, Time

“Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Horse, Flying, Forgetting

“We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

God

“She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is thereemergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?'
'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Thinking, Sun

“Sage?" Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. "You okay?"
"I don't know," I said softly. "I just thought of something crazy."
"Welcome to my world.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Feeling

“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep

“Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.”

Malorie Blackman book Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

“This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Oprah.com http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Life-Lessons-We-All-Need-to-Learn-Brene-Brown#ixzz28s3kPWdP Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Context: Belonging is not fitting in... Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

Sense

“There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist… If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.”

Alex Garland book The Beach

Source: The Beach

Question, Distant

“That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Lie, Way, Soul

“Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Men, Strong

“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Love, Stupidity

“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms”

Bruno Latour (1947) French sociologist, philosopher and anthropologist

Source: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

“Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed.”

A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet

No. 19, st. 2. Source: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

Hell

“The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God." And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." And Abraham Lincoln: "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal..." So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime — the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Love, Truth, Christ

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Love, Parent, Family, For Parents

“I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Friendship

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Mood, Dependency

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Children, Imagination

“Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Attributed in The National elementary principal https://books.google.com/books?id=T8YVAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&dq=%22Then+will+our+world+know+the+blessings+of+peace.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1iNCMvcHLAhUMcz4KHXvcCt84MhDoAQgfMAE (1948) - Volume 28 - Page 34; a similar statement has also become attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace." A similar quotation is found in My Heart Shall Give A Oneness-Feast (1993) by Sri Chinmoy: "My books, they all have only one message: the heart's Power Of Love must replace the mind's Love Of Power. If I have the Power Of Love, then I shall claim the whole World as my own … World Peace can be achieved when the Power Of Love replaces the Love Of Power." An even earlier statement of Chinmoy is found in Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970): "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God." Disputed Variant: We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Love, Peace, Time, Peaceful

“Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh, cry… be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world… I don't know what is!”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Happiness, Cry