What Is It To Be Human Quotes
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.
I didn't think too much of killing individual people. I use to think of killing the human race sometimes.
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.
We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.
Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.
Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.
The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.