Quotes About Humanity

When you connect with your own suffering, reflect that countless beings at this very moment are feeling exactly what you feel. Their story line is different, but the feeling of pain is the same. When

Just like me, this person doesn't want to feel uncomfortable. Just like me, this person loses it sometimes. Just like me, this person doesn't want to be disliked. Just like me, this person wants to have friends and intimacy.

expanding our ability to feel comfortable in our own skin and in the world, so that we can be there as much as possible for other people, is a very worthy way to spend a human life.

Natural warmth is our shared capacity to love, to have empathy, to have a sense of humor. It is also our capacity to feel gratitude and appreciation and tenderness. It's the whole gamut of what often are called the heart qualities, qualities that are a natural part of being human. Natural warmth has the power to heal all relationships—the relationship with ourselves as well as with people, animals, and all that we encounter every day of our lives.

The first noble truth says simply that it's part of being human to feel discomfort.

all of us have had to start in the same place—as confused, reactive, but basically good human beings.

Our story lines are different, but when it comes to pain and pleasure and our reaction to them, people everywhere are the same.

Even if you were the Buddha himself, if you were a fully enlightened person, you would experience death, illness, aging, and sorrow at losing what you love. All of these things would happen to you. If you got burned or cut, it would hurt.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

somewhere under the rage, there's something human. barely.

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.