Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.

In the meantime, if you're not into the world you live in, you can build your own world around you.[...]Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.

can’t change the world but I can change the world in me.

Help the world to become better. Don't leave the world just the same as you have found it - make it a little better, make it a little more beautiful.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Build therefore your own world.