I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take,...

Imagine yourself in a parallel universe. Imagined? Now either attain or forget it.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.

The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of...

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

They jostled one another, competed for space below as they did above, in a minuet of ruin and triumph. In the subway, down in the dark, no citizen was more significant or more decrepit than...

One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental...

No the first day, man crea tee God

We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.

When I speak about love and compassion, I do so not as a Buddhist, nor as a Tibetan, nor as the Dalai Lama. I do so as one human being speaking with another. I hope...

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm,...

We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention,...

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.And while such vulnerability...

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

Jesus is the answer to the longing of every human heart. The love of his heart is the only love capable of filling our human longing—because it is human, yet infinite, and because it is...

We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious...

When nobody takes a responsibility it’s yours.

You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.

We are amazing individuals.

Equality has a hard time in humanity. Race, sexuality, or creed has always divided societies.

It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be...

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that’s...

The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.

He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take...

Complicated is when you can’t * with and can’t * without .!

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise’s] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio to the distance separating the sufferers from herself.

Human was simultaneously the bearer of God’s wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and praise of that creation for its Creator into love, speech, and conscious obedience.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

These tears are proof that there is love in the world. Tears are only bitter when we cry selfishly for ourselves. When we deny and forget the sweet love that tears are made of. When...

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

at what point do the rationalizations strip you of your humanity?

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own...

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge...

Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person’s pain. That’s it.

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it’s way. When...

Yes, they think we’re dumb. They call us the “common people.” But I’ve been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what’s so common about us. I think they’re guilty of a gross...

The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus’ humanity”. ~R. Alan Woods [1999]

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity....

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.