Being Human Quotes - Page 7

• Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.

  Alan Green

  Spirituality, Emotion, Language

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Selfish, Teaching

  Norm Phelps (2004). “The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights”, p.15, Lantern Books

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• A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

  R. J. Palacio

  Girl, Kids, Big Sister

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• There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.

  Si Robertson

  Mean, Kids, Son

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• Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

  James Altucher

  Suffering, Different, Disease

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• Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Hurt, People

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• When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

  Mary Karr

  People, Suffering, Stuff

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• For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.

  Mark Nepo

  Letting Go, Fall, Heart

  Mark Nepo (2007). “The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life”, p.1, Harmony

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• Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

  Neal Stephenson

  Knowing, Enemy, Rivals

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Strong, Creating

  Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.249, Crown Business

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• I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's no longer about people with huge brains. Now it's really much more, as Jim Cameron says, the nature of being human. What it is to be human in society. How to retain one's humanity in society.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Writing, Simple, Interest

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Simple

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large for me to confront intuitively through songwriting. I kept pushing it and pushing it. There are so many issues about being human and why people inflict pain on each other. There were seeds of all these things I hadn't dealt with. With just the personal issues, I felt I was in over my head, but then to write about it... To write you have to have at least a little bit of confidence you know what you're talking about.

  Jeff Mangum

  Song, Pain, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

  Rich Mullins

  Lonely, Loneliness, Stress

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• I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don't in any explicit way address these issues in their writing.

  Francisco Goldman

  Writing, Thinking, Mexican

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of times the movies I think are the funniest are dramas. I feel like dramas are so much funnier because they're actually capturing human beings. Humans are so weird and clumsy, and that, to me, often makes me laugh more.

  Zach Woods

  Drama, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't try to be this super perfect person, but has respect for his history and for his ancestors and for spirituality. So Nas always displayed that in his music, while at the same time keeping it hard and something that you can relate to.

  Damian Marley

  Real, Time Keeping, Perfect

  Source: www.metabunker.dk

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• If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

  Francis Levy

  Compromise, Virtue, Pleasure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

  Alice Englert

  Stories, Useless, Littles

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• That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Daughter, Together, Becoming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teamwork, Encouragement, Heart

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

  Peter L. Berger

  Attitude, Men, Order

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he had to become human. And being human, he had to overcome his humanity.

  Rick Yancey

  Home, People, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.134, Penguin

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