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• If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

  Tony Campolo

  World, Care, Humans

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• There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

  Terry Pratchett

  Doubt, Lifetime, Difficult

  "Thief of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

  Rumi

  Morning, House, Guests

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• What a bummer it is to be a human being.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Humanity, Humans, Bummer

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• We are unusual and tragic and alive.

  Dave Eggers

  Life, People, Alive

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

  Rollo May

  Essence, Spinning, Facts

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Beautiful, Pain, Mistake

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “THE MAGIC”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Humanity, Danger, Planets

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• Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

  Trent Reznor

  Difficult, Humans

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• Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

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• Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.

  Unknown

  Christian, Firsts, Becoming

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• What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Shared Experiences, Humans, Me Alone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Wise, Artist, Adults

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• I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humanity, Human Nature, Humans

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.144, Read Books Ltd

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• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

  David Sobel

  Love, Inspirational, Children

  "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  Pablo Casals

  Fear, Things In Life, Heaven

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• I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

  Francis Bacon

  Humanity, Arbitrary, Way

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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• At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

  Richard Rorty

  Fighting, Justice, Social

  Richard Rorty (1999). “Philosophy and Social Hope”, ePenguin

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• Being human is overrated.

  Mark Penn

  Overrated, Humans

  "Clinton's Road to Second Place" by Jackie Calmes, www.wsj.com. June 04, 2008.

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• I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

  Curt Schilling

  Mistake, Book, Done

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• Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

  Ray Charles

  Feelings, Way, Emotion

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (1978). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

  Alice Hoffman

  Life, Mean, Losing Everything

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

  Philip Kitcher

  May, Scientist, Natural

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• There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

  Charles Taylor

  Giving, Missing, Way

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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