Being Human Quotes - Page 8

• This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

  Alicia Alonso

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfilment.

  Agnivesh

  God, Adventure, Destiny

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

  John Daido Loori

  Creativity, Thinking, Talking

  John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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• Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains, turn our backs on Jesus, and blame a thousand tyrannies- but we never come to terms with the source of the problem deep within the heart and inclination of every human being.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Passion, Heart

  Ravi Zacharias (2010). “Has Christianity Failed You?”, p.41, Zondervan

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• And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Ann Rinaldi (2011). “Time Enough for Drums”, p.125, Laurel Leaf

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• Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

  Robert Winston

  Ideas, Long, Understanding

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• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• ..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

  Gary Chapman

  Inspirational Love, Past, Needs

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.

  David Mitchell

  Powerful, Reading, Impact

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• Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Rose, Life Is, Said

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.254, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

  Dan Simmons

  Long, Humanity, Evolution

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1836, Spectra

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• You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.

  Glen Duncan

  Mean, Men, Ideas

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

  Chris Colfer

  Emotional, Guilty, Feels

  "Chris Colfer Vents His ‘High School Frustrations’ In ‘Struck By Lightning" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

  Rachel Joyce

  Unique, Stranger, Dilemma

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• You gotta remember: we're musicians we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!

  Corey Taylor

  Couple, Crazy, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.

  Steven Pressfield

  Pain, Artist, Men

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.45, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Imagination

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• It was fantastic returning to Being Human. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.

  Ellie Kendrick

  Nice, Fans, Roles

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

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• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, Nothing can go wrong with them. We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  Karen Carpenter

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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

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• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  Donald Johanson

  Art, Unique, Animal

  "How Will Humans Evolve?". bigthink.com. 2017.

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• It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal "call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels.

  Hermann Rauschning

  Christian, Civilization, Humanity

  "The Beast From the Abyss". Book by Hermann Rauschning, pp. 155-156, 1941.

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• We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Equality, Justice, Hatred

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• Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound to the complete truth. There is always a danger lest the fascination of a new discovery should lead us too far. Men of science, being human, are apt, like lovers, to exaggerate the perfections and be a little blind to the faults of the object of their choice.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Truth, Struggle, Science

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

  Marc Maron

  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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