54 quotes found
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”
“So I was communicating directly with God? Absolutely. Expressed that way, it sounds grandiose. But when it was happening, it didn't feel that way. Instead, I felt like I was doing what every soul i...”
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
“And yet, despite the multiplicity of times we've done it, it is still a funny, exultant, true thing - where for a short time you turn into something else and fly; where you stop fretting and wantin...”
“How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled...”
“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. Youre not bound by the past; that is who...”
“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because ...”
“Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability that allows us to be useful creatures on this planet; without empathy, we are ...”
“My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.”
“When you are dealing with difficulties and you feel like you don't have the strength to stand anymore, do not allow yourself to see that as a sign of weakness, it is just a sign that you are human....”
“I believe in the ability to choose. I believe this life is made up of our choices and their consequences the good and the bad. I do not believe in letting anything up to fate. We are the makers of ...”
“It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.”
“Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.”
“Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see w...”
“It is of immense importance, that first and foremost, people identify themselves as human beings, rather than as a believer in a spiritual belief system. Any spiritual belief system. There is such ...”
“Everything seemed so unrealso supernaturaland I had to remind myself that is was. We werent human. We never were. (Jessica)”
“Just because I wasnt human, didnt mean I could discount human life. (Eric)”
“You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.”
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primo...”
