1. Proverb - “Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then.”

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2. Proverb - “Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.”

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3. Prophet Muhammad - “Be in the world like a traveller, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead.”

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4. Prophet Muhammad - “This world is a prison for the Faithful, but a Paradise for unbelievers.”

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5. Prophet Muhammad - “The love of the world is the root of all evil.”

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6. Proverb - “A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

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7. Emile Zola - “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

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8. Dogen Zenji - “Those who see worldly live as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions; they have not discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.”

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9. Oscar Wilde - “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at.”

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10. William Allen White - “If the world were extremely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.”

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11. Woodrow Wilson - “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

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12. Amerigo Vespucci - “Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet ... we may rightly call a New World ... a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”

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13. Unknown - “When a resolute fellow steps up to that great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find that the beard comes off in his hand, that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.”

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14. Unknown - “If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”

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15. Henry David Thoreau - “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

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16. George Santayana - “A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

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17. Theodore Roosevelt - “If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.”

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18. Montagu C. Norman - “I wonder if there is anyone in the world who can really direct the affairs of the world, or of his country, with any assurance of the result his actions would have.”

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19. Margaret Mead - “We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.”

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20. André Maurois - “Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.”

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21. Orison Swett Marden - “We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.”

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22. John Locke - “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

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23. General Douglas MacArthur - “A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.”

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24. Lao Tzu - “{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.”

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25. François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld - “He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”

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