Being Human Quotes - Page 13

• The good news is that we are Buddha.
  The bad news is that all beings are Buddha.
  The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

  Albert Low

  Unique, News, Sickness

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• If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

  Henry Cavill

  Fake, Causes, Harm

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

  Tim O'Brien

  Struggle, Heart, Character

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• No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving to say, that you're mad about but never express, sometimes come out, all at once. We all have these terrible moments. That's just part of being human.

  Judd Apatow

  Bad Day, Mad, Matter

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Mean, Want, Accomplish

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.179, Random House

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• I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

  David Poole

  Liars, Believe, Giving

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• I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

  Shary Boyle

  Beautiful, Vision, Needs

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• Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics was who I am and I have to be an Olympian and I have to make this team. That’s probably why I was a little bit devastated when I didn’t make it. You know, I was kinda lost. Now I realize that we’re all magnificent, regardless of what we do or whatever career path we choose, you know, that career doesn’t have to define us as a human being. There’s so much more to being human than all of this.

  Raj Bhavsar

  Team, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

  Denis Waitley

  Lying, Needs, Tools

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• We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

  Erica Jong

  Baby, Sleep, Perfection

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• Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Ego, Style, Suffering

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• Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

  Larry Kramer

  Beautiful, Gay, Normal

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• The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

  Ani DiFranco

  Children, Animal, Feminist

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• When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

  Rumi

  Singing, Firsts, Lips

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, ch. 25: "Real Patriots Ask Questions", 1995.

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• We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

  Charles Eisenstein

  New Relationship, New Experiences, New Normal

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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• But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Mistake, Past

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Time Untime”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Beautiful, Mean, Destiny

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• We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

  Dionne Warwick

  People, Giving, Reason

  "This much I know: Dionne Warwick". Interview With Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Strength, Patience, Able

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer". www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• ...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Simple, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.

  Robert Monroe

  Humans, Temporary

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• Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

  Michael Gungor

  Long, Trying, Burnout

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• Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Continuing On, Doubt

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• It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

  Claire Messud

  Lying, Fall, People

  FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 10, 2016

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