I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.
A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.
Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.
So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.
It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!
I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.
And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?
After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
