Quotes About Humanity

??????????????????????? Somos humanos. Sentir dolor es algo desagradable para cualquiera.

Quando vedono troppe cose, gli esseri umani diventano stranamente tristi.

We're all brothers and sisters when we're in trouble, aren't we?

Ogni persona è unica. È la cosa più importante di tutte, eppure troppo spesso ce ne dimentichiamo

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume.

Welcome to the future.... All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

I've been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I've decided it's wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.

Only ceremony and the love of fate distinguish us from the beasts.

He comes to them in disguise, tricks himself out as a bull, an eagle, a swan, or, as in the present case, a husband, and thinks to make them love him--him, that is, and not what or who he is pretending to be, as if he were a mortal just like them. Ah, yes, love, what they call love, it drives him to distraction, for it is one of that pair of things our kind may not experience, the other being, obviously, death.

Bu?n l?m. Th??ng l?m. Ai oán. D??i m? sâu ng??i ?âu còn là ng??i. Nhìn nhau. Hi?u nhau mà không làm gì ???c cho nhau.

Chao ôi! Chi?n tranh là cõi không nhà, không c?a, lang thang kh?n kh? và phiêu b?t v? ??i, là cõi không ?àn ông, không ?àn bà, là th? gi?i b?t s?u vô c?m và tuy?t t? kh?ng khi?p nh?t c?a dòng gi?ng con ng??i!

But war was a world with no home, no roof, no comforts. A miserable journey, of endless drifting. War was a world without real men, without real women, without feeling.

Hòa bình ?p t?i ph? phàng, choáng váng ??t tr?i và xiêu ??o lòng ng??i, gây bàng hoàng, gây ?au ??n nhi?u h?n là m?ng vui.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles. SHABKAR, TIBETAN POET

but I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

How wonderful of [Jesus] to come back undercover, so that even the people who knew him best had to look, then look again, before they got the crawly feeling that they had seen him somewhere before. It was the perfect setup for people who wanted to know what made him different from anyone else they had met: his ability to reflect their humanity back to them, both familiar and strange, so that they never got tired of searching each other's faces for some sign of him.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. —Carl Jung

Here is a law as reliable as gravity: The degree to which we believe our faith is makes us human is the same degree with which we will question the humanity of those who do not share our faith.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it. So welcome to your own priesthood, practiced at the altar of your own life. The good news is that you have everything you need to begin.

In Jesus, Christians believe, everyone gets a good look at what it means to be both fully human and fully divine—not half and half, as if he walked around with a dotted line down his middle, but fully both, all the time. His full humanity was on full display as he taught, healed, fed, and freed people, just as it was when he honored the poor, defied the powerful, and turned the institutional tables along with his own cheek.