To be human is, primarily, to embrace that we are human with strengths and weaknesses, and that our humanity is preordained to seek the Truth, Good and Beauty as part of our humanity. To be...

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 what is possible...

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

The best parts of being human are the parts you share.

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...

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. You’re not bound by the past;...

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

That’s what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

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...

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings.

They say that some people come in our life as blessings and others as lessons, but to be specific and precise only simple and humble people with the utmost simplicity in their lives only come...

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...

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 a preoccupation with...

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.

Life is like an extremely toughest examination and so the passing percentage of its students is abysmally low; a person with his 70 % contributions of the true kind deeds has only cleared it with...

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

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...

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...

Practising honestly the simplicity in life is an act of humanity so, in fact, a true spirituality which is always a service to an omnipresent, invisible power called God Almighty.

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 there...

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 broken butterfly wings; suddenly...

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...

Our true self is being who we are.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

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.

Perfection? Being the most human you can be.

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

Love is only an expression of feelings from heart. If the world is starved for love, then it only entails the need to cultivate and develop feelings in the heart of people.

You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

It’s shocking the things we call love.

Vi er ikke annet enn tønner fulle av varme, halvråtne innvoller, og derfor har vi alltid vanskeligheter med følelsene våre. være forelsket er ingen kunst. Kunsten består i å unngå å gå i oppløsning. En...

If the road is not patchy, rough and on a hilly terrain, then the journey is not often worth undertaking as all destinations are already enough crowded

My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.

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 primordial process, the desire for...

The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

A person could himself distinguish the human beings into different kind only, but a different person being only kind could distinguish himself to be a human.

Sometimes pain can bring about clarity and remind us we’re still breathing.

… but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be...

human mind is influencing constantly.man can not fully control it.as he think he did,second after he will be under it’s control.that’s all being human.

It is always better to be a human than a lion in a world full of concrete jungle.

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)

Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.

It still hurts, but life is supposed to hurt. Too many people think life is supposed to be easy and perfect all the time. But there is always some hurt. It’s part of being alive....