Top 1200 Worldly Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

I'm a fairly worldly guy.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.

Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our best thoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul.

I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.

If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only those things done for the sake of Allah are the ‘religious’ things. Everything that is done for other than Allah – however ‘religious’ it may seem – is a worldly act… If he earns thousands of pounds to support his family and to spend for the cause of Allah, seeking only Allah’s pleasure, it is a highly spiritual act.

I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

The Koran says that humanity has been created to recognize and worship God and, as a dimension of this worship, to improve the world in strict avoidance of corruption and bloodshed. It requires treating all things and beings with deep compassion. This is my philosophy, which obliges me to remain aloof from all worldly titles and ranks.

The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.

Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

Caring for others is the basis of worldly success.

Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is in need of wealth or anything else. Real offering is the act of surrendering the mind and the intellect. How can it be done? We cannot offer our minds as they are, but only the things to which our minds are attached. Today our minds are greatly attached to money and other worldly things. By placing such thoughts at the feet of the Lord, we are offering Him our heart. This is the principle behind giving charities.

Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.

O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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I dreamt of worldly success once.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

Coming into Congress, I didn't really have much of a worldly experience.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

I have become worldly-wise and mature after participating in 'Bigg Boss.'

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.