Being Human Quotes - Page 6

• [What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

  Jeff Buckley

  Emotional, Self, People

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• That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

  David O. Russell

  Thinking, Looks, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Beach, Art, Children

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• Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Mind

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• 10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Lying, Mistake, Mirrors

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• Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

  Ken Robinson

  Heart, Creative, Progress

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2015). “Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education”, p.94, Penguin

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• It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Art, Fall, Character

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• I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

  Mark Nepo

  Confused, Believe, Practice

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I think that the whole idea of ‘no regrets’ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all the places I went wrong, but that’s what creating anything, and being human, is all about. Of course if I could go back and knew what I know now, I absolutely would do it differently, I’d do it the right way, but part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again, we’ll do it the right way.

  Jesse Lacey

  Regret, Silly, Thinking

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• Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Men, Order

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, p. 229, 1987.

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• Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

  Robert Breault

  Kindness, Acting, Capacity

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• Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

  Coleman Barks

  Joy, Treasure, Ruins

  Coleman Barks (2010). “The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

  Layne Redmond

  Powerful, Play, People

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• There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taste, Human Nature, Humans

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• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Country, Heart, Adventure

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• Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Our Society, Realizing, Should

  "Vital Vidal". Interview with Matt Smith, archives.sfweekly.com. October 15, 1997.

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• Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

  Janet Fitch

  Suffering, Humans

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• The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

  David Coverdale

  Demigods, Stage, Feels

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• Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers. That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is. There is no American or Frenchhistory. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Distance, Fighting

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• I'm obsessed with being human.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Obsessed, Humans

  "Rachelle Lefevre Interview OFF THE MAP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

  Edith Sitwell

  Animal, Humans, Regard

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.15, A&C Black

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• Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Past, Progress

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way.

  Tara Brach

  Attachment, Healthy, Honor

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

  Chelsea Handler

  Littles, Helping, Humans

  Source: variety.com

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• Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

  Tommy Chong

  Humane

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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