Humans Quotes - Page 20

• Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, Commitment, Compassion

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• I felt before I thought, as all humans do.

  Arthur Japin

  Felt

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Brother, Buddhist

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• The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kissing, Race, Squids

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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• Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

  Robert Wright

  Stress, Way, Fabulous

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Long, Firsts

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Future, Thinking

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

  Nancy Farmer

  Giving Up, Fighting, Animal

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• ...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, People, Church

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

  Noam Chomsky

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

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• Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

  Julie Orringer

  Responsibility, Men, Dust

  FaceBook post by Julie Orringer from Jan 17, 2017

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• Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ignorance, Effort, Missing

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.71, Macmillan

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• If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Struggle, Water, Laughing

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• The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

  Paul Eluard

  Doe, Body, Flesh

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

  John Green

  Stupid, Voice, Ruining Everything

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.749, Penguin

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• I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

  Melina Marchetta

  Believe, Boys, Desire

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• Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.

  Marissa Meyer

  Useless, Androids, Cry

  Marissa Meyer (2016). “Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection”, p.80, Macmillan

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• I have a glitch, too. Sometimes I forget that I’m not human. I don’t think that happens to most androids.

  Marissa Meyer

  Thinking, Glitches, Androids

  Marissa Meyer (2016). “Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection”, p.80, Macmillan

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• We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

  F. Sionil José

  Light, Compromise, Sin

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• Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

  W. S. Merwin

  Garden, Thinking, Design

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• Nothing human surprises me.

  Charles Willeford

  Surprise, Surprise Me

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• But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mind

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• I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  War, Mean, Dark

  Ozzy Osbourne (2009). “I Am Ozzy”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

  Douglas Adams

  Humming, Hated, Marvin

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

  Carson McCullers

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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