Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom.
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.
God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.
You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
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