Quotes About Humanity

free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

This train carries saints and sinners. This train carries losers and winners. This train carries whores and gamblers. This train carries lost souls…   Canción popular

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.

A border is something that divides us but also unites us; there can be no real wall, just as there is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst.

Shakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them.

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. —Stephen King

There are no humanitarians in cages

Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, "It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit."22

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

found himself marveling at how many different names there are in this world. All individual, most pronounceable. Think of that.

The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112

Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M. by Donald Justice Excepting the diner On the outskirts The town of Ladora at 3 A.M. Was dark but For my headlights And up in One second-story room A single light Where someone Was sick or Perhaps reading As I drove past At seventy Not thinking This poem Is for whoever Had the light on

the Bible does not present what the right human thoughts about God are. The Bible shows the right thoughts of God about humans.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren't always human.

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.