Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. Francesco Petrarch
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. Miguel de Cervantes
To the dull mind, all nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind, the whole world sparkles with light. Ralph Waldo Emerson Mind World Nature
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway. George Michael
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. John Milton Virtue
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. Henry David Thoreau
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson Soul
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet. Rudyard Kipling
Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers. Paulo Coelho Life
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson Heart Hope
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens
A beam of compound light is no longer reflected by the lined surface in the ordinary way; instead each special kind of light follows its own path. Pieter Zeeman
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Friedrich Schiller
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. Emanuel Swedenborg World
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness Dreams
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau Power
