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“See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“Light the candle of love. Spread the rays of happiness in every direction in every breath.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“Spend a few hours every week studying American history, human nature, and economic theory. Start with “Economics in One Lesson.â€� Then try Keynes. Then Hayek. Then Marx. Then Hegel. Develop a worldview that you can articulate as well as defend. Test your theory with people who disagree with you. Debate. Argue. Adjust your philosophy as necessary.”
― Mike Rowe

“If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.”
― Germany Kent

“We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.”
― Myles Munroe, Kingdom Principles: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion

“In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.”
― J.R. Rim

“You can spot people who don't know Jesus very well because the world they see is always so ugly. Even if they use all sorts of religious language, don't be misled—people who get touched by Jesus don't ignore the hurt and pain in the world, and yet they see so much beauty in it.”
― Jonathan Martin, Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?

“We are more willing to offend someone with whom we have weak ties, and a willingness to offend is an important part of creativity. Strong ties make us feel good, make us feel that we belong, but they also constrict our worldview.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.”
― Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life

“Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.”
― Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing

“In the old days, a liberal and a conservative (a “doveâ€� and a “hawk,â€� say) got their data from one of three nightly news programs, a local paper, and a handful of national magazines, and were thus starting with the same basic facts (even if those facts were questionable, limited, or erroneous). Now each of us constructs a custom informational universe, wittingly (we choose to go to the sources that uphold our existing beliefs and thus flatter us) or unwittingly (our app algorithms do the driving for us). The data we get this way, pre-imprinted with spin and mythos, are intensely one-dimensional.”
― George Saunders

“Today's media zoom their cameras in on and dedicate endless column inches to wars, disasters, famines, scandals, tragedies, and every form of evil. Things beautiful, wholesome and good, however, are less photogenic, so the works of God and His servants are rarely noticed.”
― Jason Mandryk, Operation World: When We Pray God Works

“Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is.”
― Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

“I want this, I do, but the bigness of the world ... it ... it kinda scares the shit out of me.”
― Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust

“Die Welt ist in meinem Kopf. Mein Körper ist in der Welt.”
― Paul Auster

“We cannot take on anger toward these professors. They are ensnared in a faulty worldview…Let us not blame the world for being the world…We can respond by pulling up stakes and retreating further into our sub-culture or we can be the harbingers of freedom to the captives. Our focus is to be on restoring rather than retreating.”
― Karla Perry, Back to the Future

“This rock has seen billions of years of living organisms and will see many more once we die and turn to dirt. Our life is but one tiny, brief, insignificant piece of this vast universe. So, why, the nihilist argues, do people really think that it is important to be a “good personâ€�, get good grades, or get a good job? What difference could that possibly make to anything?

Nihilism is an honest evaluation of what a universe without God would look like. Nietzsche was right about that. Where he went wrong was in thinking this was true of the actual universe.”
― Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share

“I have been all over this world of ours and I have found only one truth to be universal no matter what culture, people or country, I have visited. If you there with an open hand, an open heart, a smile, and demonstrating a little respect for those you me, you will always find yourself welcome.”
― Michael Leslie

“Wife: I want to have a child.
Husband: I can't imagine bringing a child into this messed-up world.
Wife: That's exactly the reason we should do it. We need to bring something good into this world to balance out the bad.”
― Matt Kindt, MIND MGMT, Volume Six: The Immortals

“We need to transform
the current scientific worldview
into a modern metaphysical
worldview in order to survive
the exponential disruptive technologies
we are about to
unleash upon ourselves”
― Jonathan R. Banks, A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics

“Lesser we live, in world’s called bubbles, of opinion makers and few policy makers. And then, comes the pop, gone is our nature, by way of some self-proclaimed needle.”
― James Emlund

“there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.”
― Ava

“But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!"
Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“The truth is only a few hundred people are at the top of the media infrastructure…in America, and their worldview is what gets delivered to the people. It isn’t necessarily that there is a conspiracy…a humanist will promote humanist values. If we choose to see it as a conspiracy, we will demonize those we find to be culpable and will lack the insight necessary to instigate change.”
― Karla Perry, Back to the Future

“Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.”
― Tim Muehlhoff, Authentic Communication: Christian Speech Engaging Culture

“Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)”
― Jon Morrison, Life Hacks: Nine Ideas That Will Change How You Do Everything

“many people do not usually take the time to think about the foundation upon which they are building their lives. When it comes to buying a house, I see that people care a great deal about the foundations of the property they are about to buy. My dad is a realtor, and before he sells a house, before people trust him with the investment of hundreds of thousands of their dollars, he recommends the buyers hire a home inspector to carefully check the structural soundness of the house, and most importantly, the foundation upon which the potential investment is built. My dad would tell you that, no matter how beautiful or decorated it may be, without a strong foundation; it is doomed. If the foundation is cracked or unstable in any way, the house needs to be torn down and rebuilt on a proper base.”
― Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share

“The Myth of Sisyphus makes us wonder if we too are like the ones who are so distracted making friends with important people, staying on top of the latest technology, getting good marks in school, and making lots of money, that we never pause to think:

What are we actually living for?

Sisyphus ended up opening his heart to questions of meaning, value and purpose. He himself decided it was best to just make the most of his short time on earth, however meaningless it all may be. Through Sisyphus, Camus is telling us that life is a joke, and the courageous ones will accept that and have a laugh along the way. I know many movies released these days that operate under the same premise.”
― Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share

“It seems that rather than abandon their worldview, many young people are abandoning their lives altogether. I am disturbed to see the number of suicides and suicide attempts by those between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five. Many of their suicide notes report they had lost meaning, purpose and a sense that life held any value.

This is no longer just about philosophy. This is about the very real lives we are all trying to make sense of here on Earth.”
― Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason To Hope, A Message To Share