Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

If you think you are the mermaid, think again. You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat, trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.

Hourglass Museum

The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

Hounded

There is always a brave new world. But only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves.

Hallowe'en Party

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

How Life Imitates the World Series

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

An Introduction to Philosophy

Adrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. No, the world became Adrian, only Adrian.

The Indigo Spell

Because what you find to be beautiful, funny and heartbreaking in this world... is what I find to be beautiful, funny and heartbreaking in this world.

I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.

J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965

I feel how little it concerns me, everything that’s called "the world," and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

Jakob von Gunten

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.

Killosophy

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

Rise of the Morningstar

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

The Magus

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II