#ld

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#throne #world

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#despair #poetry #world

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#hell #world #world

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#world

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder. ↗

— Mike Yaconelli

#dreams #wonder #dreams

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#destruction #healing #people #world #today

To world enough and time. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#love #time #world #dreams

Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#dreams

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#illusion #karl-lagerfeld #dreams

There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too [...] There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore ..." (The Russians) ↗

— Sting

#common-sense #communalities #ideology #peace #war