Quotes by Our World In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain. A. S. Byatt our-world mind brain The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. Aaron Peirsol our-world ocean world One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created. Abraham Joshua Heschel our-world broken prayer The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. Adam Hochschild our-world war way The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world. Adam Schiff cold our-world war Seeing how many people in our world today are focused on doing good in this world for others, especially in the younger generation and how passionate they feel about making a difference. What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other. Agapi Stassinopoulos our-world differences helping-others I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today. Agatha Christie our-world block sorry Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better. Al Gore our-world voice believe Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. Al Gore our-world imagination challenges Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes. Al Gore our-world causes energy It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes. Alain de Botton our-world eye would-be We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue...that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations. Alain J. P. Belda climate our-world goal High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. Alan Autry agriculture our-world technology I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds. Alan Lightman our-world writing long Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world. Alan Watts doctrine our-world way Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. Albert Camus uprising our-world reality I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation. Albert Hofmann our-world spiritual reality But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches. Albert Schweitzer our-world years ideas If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large. Alberto Villoldo sage our-world dream I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world. Alcee Hastings our-world democracy country 1234567891011»