Quotes About Human

Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Inborn human desires are a nuisance to those with utopian and totalitarian visions, which often amount to the same thing.

The pain of being human is that we're all angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.

We humans have territories too. Ours are psychological. Stevie Wonder's territory is the piano. Arnold Schwarzenegger's is the gym. When Bill Gates pulls into the parking lot at Microsoft, he's on his territory. When I sit down to write, I'm on mine.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Just as a human uses depth perception as part of everyday life, so do denizens in some other Realms use clairvoyance.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. PSALM 118:8

Whatever the surface appearances, most human beings come equipped with convoluted emotional machinery. With intimacy, the wreckage starts to show, damage rendered in the course of passions colliding like freight trains on the same track.

There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Some debts of the human soul are so enormous only life itself is sufficient forfeit. Perhaps in this case, all of the accounts are now paid in full . . . except mine.

Seeking out and giving support are so vital to human beings that social psychologists Mario Mikulincer and Phil Shaver observe that, rather than being called Homo sapiens, or "one who knows," we should be named Homo auxiliator vel accipio auxilium, or "one who helps or receives help." To be even more accurate, I say we should be called Homo vinculum—"one who bonds.

How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love—but to persist in love.

The human brain is the most unsuccessful adaptation ever to appear in the history of life on earth," whale scientist Roger Payne once suggested.

He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into an animal. All that could be seen in him was the urge to hurt, and it was, as it always will be, the most dreadful sight in the world.

Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.

temper is the most destructive of human faults. It supplants trust with fear; it poisons love; it breeds aversion or indifference; it sterilizes emotion.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

fear, she thought. It must be part of the human condition and yet it was as wasteful as wishing.

Every time you accept the claim that you can't change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting the foundations of the worldview that grounded the ancien regime.

The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.