To me, the whole world is a homeland, like the sea to fish.
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
Suzanne Collins does an amazing job of showing us, basically, a world that looks a lot like the world that we live in, and having us look at it and say, "how could anyone live in a world like that?" She also does a really admirable job of not blaming the participants of that society.
It's worth remembering that seven hundred years later, we don't remember the individuals who built the Belfry or dug the canals; we don't remember their political affiliations or even their nationalistic identities; we remember them as a collective, just as we ourselves will be remembered as a colle…
I think we owe both the dead and the not-yet-living precisely the same thing: the daily awareness that human life is ours only in trust.
Crime is not actually caused by evil; it's caused by systematic disenfranchisement and poverty and lack of access to job opportunities and education.
All simplicity is a lie.
The solution is understanding.
She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.
I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.
Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad and lonely.
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
If you could change the whole world in one way, what would it be?
All you need is one person to believe in you and the world is yours. Just one.
To change the world, start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.
We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change.
There's the whole world at your feet.
I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
They can have the world. We'll create our own.
When the world turns its back on you, YOU turn your back on the world.