Quotes About Humanity

If I have trust in Catholicism, it is because I find in it much more possibility than in any other religion for presenting the full symphony of humanity. The other religions have almost no fullness; they have but solo parts. Only Catholicism can present the full symphony. And unless there is in that symphony a part that corresponds to Japan . . . it cannot be a true religion.

Siapa pun bisa tertarik oleh yang cantik-cantik dan memesona. Tetapi bisakah ketertarikan semacam itu disebut cinta kasih? Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.

Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.

Tapi apa yang ditetapkan Tuhan tentunya lebih baik daripada yang bisa diberikan atau yang terpikir oleh manusia.

Dosa bukanlah apa yang biasanya dikira orang, pikirnya; dosa bukanlah karena mencuri dan berbohong. Dosa adalah kalau orang menginjak-injak kehidupan orang lain secara brutal dan sama sekali tidak peduli akan luka-luka yang ditimbulkannya.

Tuhan menciptakan segala sesuatu untuk kebaikan. Dan untuk kebaikan ini pula dia menganugerahkan kepada manusia kemampuan berpikir; tapi kita manusia kadang-kadang menggunakan kemampuan diskriminasi ini secara keliru. Inilah kejahatan.

Greh, razmišljao je, nije ono što se obi?no misli da jeste; greh nije krasti i govoriti laži. Greh je kada ?ovek surovo gazi život drugog ?oveka , ne misle?i na to kakve rane ostavlja za sobom.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

Ako nekoga mrzi mnogo ljudi, to mora da je dobar ?ovek.

But if—when—those things happen, I would not have you be cruel in return. Kinder hearts are stronger, I think.

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.

Policemen and criminals were not so very much different.  So said Grand-père Filepe.  Certainly, they tended to know the same people, to drink in the same places, to roam the same streets at very nearly the same hours.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

There is no reason for a feeling of separation from anything or anyone, because we have been it all and done it all. How then can we feel self-righteous or removed from anyone or any action? Ther is no spot on this earth where we have not laughed, cried, been born and died. So in some sense, every single place we go is home. Everyone we meet we know. Everything that is done we are capable of.

It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget that we're interdependent creatures whose very existence depends on the kindness of others, including—with a bow to Tennessee Williams—strangers.

The heart is a generous muscle.

There may be people who absolutely defy our ability (or willingness) to think of even one good thing about them. In that case, focus on the universal wish to be happy, which this difficult person also shares. All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love." And that means every last one of us.

Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that.