“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist”
Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
Lydia Canaan Lebanese singer-songwriter
From Hostage to Injustice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYo3oXInGU, a speech delivered at the 26th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, June 17, 2014
“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
“You are not here to change the world. The world is here to change you.”
Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar
Attributed
“Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: God-Shaped Hole
Harold W. Percival book Thinking and Destiny
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 5, Physical Destiny, p. 143
