Human Beings Quotes

• A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Mind, Actors, Conservative

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• Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

  Richard Yates

  Inability To Love, Insane, Definitions

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.290, Random House

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• My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

  Robin Williams

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

  Ben Whishaw

  Choices, Certainty In Life, Next

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

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• As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

  Kevin Powers

  Blessing, Normal, Matter

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• To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.

  Epictetus

  Fate, Self, Cities

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• Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

  Sarah Chalke

  Privacy, Humans, Loses

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• It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Loneliness, Mean, People

  "Elisabeth Shue Talks Lingerie With AM". Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. April 2, 2010.

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Believe, Hard Work, Mean

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• Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 17, 2017

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

  Chita Rivera

  Thinking, Groups, Grew Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Every Person Has a Purpose" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2009.

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• The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

  Charlie Munger

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Helping Others

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• We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Race, People

  "Reel Injun". Documentary, Western, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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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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• If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Cat, Novelists

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Humanity, Poor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

  William Faulkner

  Space, Two, Trying

  1959 Speech to UNESCO Commission, in the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Shepherds, Lord

  "Letter on Humanism". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1947.

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• Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Persons, Stills, Humans

  "I'm a castrated bull". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2012.

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• There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.

  Samuel Gompers

  Live Life, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Samuel Gompers (1957). “Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography”

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• Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

  Humberto Maturana

  Love Is, Identity, Grounding

  "Biology of love". 1996.

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