Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.
You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
I'll throw a globe at you! You ever been hit by the world?!
He who best knows the world will love it least.
You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.
There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong
The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
