“I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. I am with you.”— Frederick Buechner, spiritualityandpractice.com
“It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”— Gregory Bateson, amazon.com
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, en.wikiquote.org
“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“The universe may not always play fair, but at least it’s got a hell of a sense of humor.”— Candace Bushnell,, amazon.com
“Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“The world’s a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“I like to think the world wasn’t ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn’t ready for the world. I’ve always arrived too late for my life.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com