Human Condition Quotes - Page 22

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  the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Feel Good, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

  Joni Mitchell

  Motivational, Gone, Knows

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

  Jim Fergus

  Reflection, Thinking, White

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strength, Courage, Wish

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

  Janet Fitch

  Lonely, Space, Attention

  "White Oleander". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

  David Brin

  Teamwork, Honesty, Law

  David Brin (2012). “Existence”, p.340, Macmillan

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• Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

  David Lynch

  Artist, Life And Death, Suffering

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• The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.150, New World Library

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  Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

  Eric Thomas

  Thinking, Years, Focus

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• I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

  Lisa Unger

  Strength, Girl, Sexy

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.69, Crown

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• I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Romantic, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

  Jon Krakauer

  Facts, Deranged, Climbers

  Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.80, Penguin

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