You are the only one who can.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all...

I don’t know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for...

I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers...

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice…

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much;...

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

They have achieved a level of organization far beyond others of their species. Unfortunately, it is being used for destructive purposes at the moment. Don’t look so surprised my dear, it’s in the nature of...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of...

Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to know...

Ariel: “Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can’t people part on more amiable terms?”Danny: “Human nature,” he said. “When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it’s a matter...

1887A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave.

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may...

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with...

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another...

There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

… I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid in my young mind, of wounded vanity. I had not yet learnt...

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Length of smile get reduced as people grow up!!!

It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake of excusing our own repugnance, the inherent cruelty from which modern civilization was...

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, ‘What’s wrong?’ Nothing. ‘Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.’ Yeah, you know it takes more...

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for...

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own...

One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.

To see an almost certain horrible death–you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident–and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly–brought to the...

I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly as possible that gift of freedom with which the miserable creature is born....

…the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.” — Diary of a Country Priest

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time...

Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.

•Spirit is like hell of difficulties, problems, etc .. But only we humans create our life easy heaven by spreading love all over.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Maybe man is nothing in particular,’ Cross said gropingly. ‘Maybe that’s the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams...

The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied half the horizon, had for...

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

… a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.