Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds...

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we’re ashamed of our bodies as to where it’s a law to wear fabrics,...

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there’s something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return,...

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn’t.

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk – lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic,...

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating...

When one hand itches, I scratch it with the other. Let this be a lesson in life.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

People aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re – we’re feeling machines that happen to think.

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men

Hold onto one thought: You’re not important. You’re not anything. Some day the load we’re carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we...

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love — I scarcely dare say it —...

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ’emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

But 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? Or...

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,And each man fixed his eyes...

It was a wonderful being, Sarah. Capable of great good, and great evil. Yes, I think you could say it was human.

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That’s not just between blacks and whites. That’s between all religions as well.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people....

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can...

One of the best things about humans is their ability to love.

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.The work is a...

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our...

This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible.

La terre nous en apprend plus sur nous que tous les livres. Parce qu’elle nous résiste. L’homme se découvre quand il se mesure avec l’obstacle.(Terre des hommes)

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

A person can be only shown a mirror, but it’s solely his duty to decide whether he wants to see his artificial beauty or natural personality.

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

The prosperity of humanity is in utter disparity with its clarity largely seen in wider poverty.

If I bet on humanity, I’d never cash a ticket.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that...

Some 3.6 million years ago, in what is now northern Tanzania, a volcano erupted, the resulting cloud of ash covering the surrounding savannahs. In 1979, the paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found in that ash footprints –...

The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

I have experienced on my body and on my soul that I needed sin very much, I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how...

Have only this consolation–that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled...

It’s simple, it’s not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to...

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale,...

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.