In the long run one gets used to anything.

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

Perception believed is reality achieved

I am only human, although I regret it.

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that...

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that’s what witches are – human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That’s just you.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

Adults make mistakes too.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if you’ve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants...

-,Qué es ser hombre, para vos?–Es muchas cosas, pero para mí… bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine...

You can’t change laws without first changing human nature… You can’t change human nature without first changing the law.

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.

One day people will come back. they won’t be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You’ll see. One day, this will be a...

Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.

Ambition interests me because it’s such a surefire indicator of damage.

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that...

The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have...

Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but ‘love’ means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. ‘Love’ is the experience of...

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they’d abandon it.

Humans are the smallest organs of the human body.

The flesh,’ as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The ‘carnal’ spirit is the one that devours things for itself and refuses to make them...

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define...

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others…thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s rights, each...

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet...

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

Aber ich gestehe, ein wenig gefiel es mir doch, daß man mich für eine so hohe Persönlichkeit hielt.

…a man’s blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own...

I’m afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

You don’t have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it’s the part of humanity.

Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

How does evil arise? Where does it come from? We think of malevolent men-— murderers, rapists, tyrants—and somehow believe they are different creatures from us. They are not. All evil men were once innocent babes,...

And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

,Se han preguntado alguna vez qué es lo que convierte en responsables a los hombres? Yo se lo diré: que solo tienen una oportunidad de hacer cada cosa. Si existieran máquinas que nos permitieran corregir...

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos…...

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature....

You don’t invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well...

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, ‘Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would...

I am more human than rational.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

to make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?