Quotes About Human

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord.  She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies.

war's greatest evil—the degradation of the human spirit.

I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of the day.

If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. We find God in our human lives, and that includes the suffering. I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences

You never get over certain losses, but the anguish part eventually ends, and it all just sucks for a while. There were moments when I understood that there was nothing much I was going to understand or figure out. There was simply the present moment, awareness, impermanence, birdsong, love. There is no fixing this setup here. It seems broken and ruined at times, but it isn't: it's simply the nature of human life.

I'm not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of mercy anymore, the divine and the human; the messy, crippled, transforming, heartbreaking, lovely, devastating presence of mercy. But I have come to believe that I am starving to death for it, and my world is, too.

I'm not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of mercy anymore, the divine and the human; the messy, crippled, transforming, heartbreaking, lovely, devastating presence of mercy. But I have come to believe that I am starving to death for it, and my world is, too.