Being Human Quotes
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.
I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.
That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.
If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess
If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human, Make a Friendship With New Born Child .
Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)
Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)
You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.
It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.
My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.
Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.
People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question.
In order to thrive, connect to and engage in what is Life-Generating and avoid or prevent what is Life-Depleting in any way you can.
Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.
Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.
That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.
There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.
The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.