Human Life Quotes - Page 21

• Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

  Amartya Sen

  Community, Freedom Of Speech, Able

  "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.

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• Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

  Martin Buber

  Humanity, Encounters, Hours

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• Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

  Dallas Willard

  Firsts, Needs, Life Is

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• Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

  Max Anders

  Protection, Neglect, Humans

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• Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest, as happened in Germany, as well, as in compassionate care for the most vulnerable members of society, as Mother Teresa did. In both approaches theology - what one believes about God and human life - matters. The world desperately needs that good news.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Mother, Believe

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• We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

  Timothy Keller

  Needs, Humans

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.24, Penguin

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• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

  Terence McKenna

  Creating, Ego, Psychedelic

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Keys, Levels

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• Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Humans, Physical Science, Axioms

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• I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

  Richard Dawkins

  Elephants, Trying, Attention

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.237, Random House

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• Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Glitter, Goods

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  World, Easier, Skeptical

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Heart, Love Is, Essence

  "Love and God". Book by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1969.

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• Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

  Willa Cather

  Ego, Half, Pulling Away

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage

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• Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life Is, Natural, Concerned

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• In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent environment, how can we hope for a harmonious future for all people of this world? In this light, the purpose of human life is to achieve our own spiritual evolution, to get rid of negativity, to establish harmony among our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual quadrants, to learn to live in harmony within the family, community, nation, ..treating all of mankind as brothers and sisters.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Spiritual, Brother, Children

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• Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Essence, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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• I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.

  Jennifer Beals

  Fashion, Army, Gay

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

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• Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Materialism, Blind

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

  Leston Havens

  Hope, Normal, Compromise

  Leston Havens (1996). “A Safe Place”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

  Barbara Ess

  Hurt, Sex, Clever

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• Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Opportunity, Self

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• There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Problem, Apprenticeship

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• Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

  Nikola Tesla

  Character, Past, Forever

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.21, Adventures Unlimited Press

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