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• To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Mean, Blessing

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• Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morning, Laughter, Eye

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• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, World, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Giving, Support

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• Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.

  Pete Wentz

  Icons, Wish, Batteries

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Seems, Human Relationships

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Block, Stress

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

  Rumi

  Gathering, Half, Majesty

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• Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Happens, Human Beings

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• You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

  Rick Yancey

  Ears, Clay, Masters

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

  Rick Yancey

  Animal, Meals, Alive

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

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• And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

  James Agee

  Cancer, Sea, Definitions

  James Agee (2013). “Cotton Tenants: Three Families”, p.21, Melville House

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• But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Selfish, Lines, Way

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• You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

  John Edward Williams

  Military, War, Race

  John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

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• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Tragedy, Skins, Who We Are

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

  Rick Yancey

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

  Erin Gruwell

  Mexican, Labels, Proud

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

  Nalini Singh

  Predator, Might, Obsession

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.231, Penguin

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• It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

  David Levithan

  Son, Two, People

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.52, Egmont UK

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• It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Sometimes, Pleasure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Saga Omnibus”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• The royal hound's belly demands rubbing. Step lively, humans, neglect me not." ~Oberon

  Kevin Hearne

  Demand, Royal, Steps

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• . . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.

  Steve Martin

  Fit

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• I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

  Rod Serling

  Simple, Expression, Political

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• I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Risk, Today

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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