#world

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chinese #crisis #economic #economic crisis #fortunately

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clothes #discussion #even #fur #handbags

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#english #french #many #people #read

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference. ↗

— Greg Lake

#changed #difference #i #ringo #rock

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#children #courageous #done #heart #life

I was mentally prepared to sustain serious injury or death, but before that day I never contemplated the reality of being captured by the enemy. I thought, "This is going to be hard on the folks," only to realize that I actually verbalized my thought out loud. As the English-speaking officer and I walked side by side, he said, "War is terrible, isn't it? ↗

— Oliver Omanson

#prisoner-of-war #war #world-war-ii #death

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#going #i #realise #whole #world

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life #living #onion-skins

There are so many stupid things that steal that purpose from us. The stupid things that you believe a lie that we ‘re not as important as we really are. That our life isn’t as important as it really is. It’s important to the people that you love, it’s important to the people that you will love in the future, it’s important to the world around you and it’s so important that you fulfill the purpose that only you can fulfill the way that you can fulfill that. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#believe #encouragement #flyleaf #future #important

Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded them of the war. On her fifteenth birthday you taught her how to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense. You made her gargle rosewater and while she coughed, said macaanto girls like you shouldn’t smell of lonely or empty. You are her mother. Why did you not warn her, hold her like a rotting boat and tell her that men will not love her if she is covered in continents, if her teeth are small colonies, if her stomach is an island if her thighs are borders? What man wants to lay down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly things but God, doesn’t she wear the world well. ↗

— Warsan Shire

#poetry #world #inspirational