"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

"Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"The real world is where the monsters are."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful."
— Hiromu Arakawa

"(When asked how to end world hunger, she replied:) 'Go home and feed your family.'"
— Mother Teresa

"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing."
— Kingdom Hearts

"It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all."
— Katherine Min (Secondhand World)

"I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
— Mary Anne Radmacher

""Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other peeople's belief superstition?"
— Jostein Gaarder

"We live in an age where unnecessary things are our only necessaries."
— Oscar Wilde

"A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart."
— Albert Camus

"There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair."
— Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies)

"It's a noir world. Unfair things happen."
— Rob Thomas

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"A hero is someone that can see death everyday, and still have hope for the world."
— Annoymous

"All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."
There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

"People aren't confused bythe Gospel. They're confused by us. Jesus is the only way to God, but we are not the only way to Jesus. This world doesn't need my tie, my hoodie, my denomination or my interpretation of the Bible. They just need Jesus. We can be passionate about what we believe, but we can't strap ourselves to the Godspel, because we are slowing it down. Jesus is going to save the world, but maybe the best thing we can do is just get out of the way. "
— Casting Crowns

" 16-18"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. "
— John 3:16-18, the Bible (The Message Version)

"In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

""He thinks he's so smart but we all know who the smart one is.""
— Weegor

"This world has need of song and sword."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

"Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

"be the change you want to see in the world ... TODAY!"
— C.L. Mareydt (I Am That I Am)

"If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

"When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant."
— Mary Lascelles (Jane Austen and Her Art)

"One must be cunning and wicked in this world."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. "
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"Well, if you don’t like the idea of one world, how many worlds do you want, and how would you like them divided? By race? By religion? By income? Unless you have a spare planet in your pocket, one world is all we have."
— Burl Barer (The Saint)

"Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost."
— Crystal Woodman Miller

"The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself."
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)