Being Human Quotes - Page 11

• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

  Terry Eagleton

  Kind, Affair, Goodness

  "Ideas for modern living: virtue" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Pain, Loss, Fate

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• Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.

  Douglas Coupland

  Grief, Sadness, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

  Rumi

  Wine, Night, Clouds

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• It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Two, Brain, Would Be

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Grief, Blue

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• Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mom, Unique, People

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• Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.

  Nicole Krauss

  Dog, Loss, Next Day

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• … but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

  John Irving

  Form, Humans, Exhaustion

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• There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

  Layne Staley

  Song, Months, Messages

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• I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

  Alanis Morissette

  Level Playing Field, Levels, Might

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• Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

  James Earl Jones

  Cutting, Important, Speech

  "A Lifetime of Achievement, but James Earl Jones Isn't Done". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2009.

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• And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

  William Gibson

  Money, Eye, Blue

  William Gibson (1987). “Count Zero”, p.24, Penguin

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• But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

  Bob Geldof

  Depression, Views, People

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• can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Men, Blame, Humans

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2002). “Liar's Game”, p.91, Penguin

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• Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Loneliness, Terrible, Humans

  A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Dragon and the Unicorn”, GuildAmerica Books

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• Touch is the meaning of being human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Humans

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Ideas, Humans

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

  Nick Hornby

  Dramatic, Enough, Heroin

  "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

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• The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Simple, Facts, Murder

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• Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Healing, Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.292, Shambhala Publications

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• Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Mistake, Opportunity

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.594, Simon and Schuster

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• They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boys, Men, Land

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2630, eBookIt.com

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