Felix Adler Quotes

When I look towards my future, I want to leave a legacy that runs rich.

People remember the last thing you did.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

A dynamic person is one who really makes a difference in the world; who does something that changes things or other people. The magnitude of the work done may not be great, but the world is different because that person has lived and worked. The real secret of a dynamic personality is to believe that God works through you, whatever you may be doing; to put his service first, and to be as sincere, practical, and efficient as you know how.

So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.