54 quotes found
“Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess”
“There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.”
“It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.”
“I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing about them, seeing their colors, hearing their stories... and when humans are broken, they're like b...”
“Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.”
“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.”
“We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for whi...”
“Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.”
“Yes, I value emotions deeply.Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life. If Emotions are an integral...”
“That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.”
“It's shocking the things we call love.”
“The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in prison is a fiction created by the racial ideology that birthed mass incarceration, namely that ...”
“That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.”
“A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer”
“I told them that if someone tells a lie, that person is not *just* a liar. If you take something that does not belong to you, you're not *just* a thief. Even if you kill someone, you're not *just* ...”
“Tears dont make you a girl, but they sure make you human.”
“If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.”
“Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.”
“We forget that we humans are animals, inextricably connected to the world and everything in it. In the rush to bring GMO food to the world because it was good for us, nobody had asked the question ...”
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.”