Quotes on World

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is not used to harm people.

The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.

The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.

The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.