Quotes About Human

My aim here is to put a human face—a child's face—on the "collateral damage" of gun violence in America.

The challenge to each human is creation.

Being frightened is a part of the human experience. It lies beneath every impulse to grow spiritually—to find the roots of fear and pull them.

The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

I don't believe in such a thing as the criminal mind. Everyone's mind is criminal; we're all capable of criminal fantasies and thoughts.

randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning.

In his reply, Freud agreed "unreservedly," adding that human instincts could be divided into two categories: "those which seek to preserve and unite, and those which seek to destroy and kill." He wrote that the phenomenon of life evolves from their "acting together and against each other.

seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many

a record has the human touch embedded in the grooves, the stamp of someone who once believed in it.

what is truth but a metaphor for the human condition?

Ninety-Five percent of the things we worry about in life never actually happen but that's the human brain for you. It can help us do all kinds of wonderful things but can also be an absolute nightmare!

Some don't like their history presented in this way, but science is richer when its stories include people as well as ideas; curiosity is, after all, a human virtue.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Yours is a holy calling," he told her. "Or a useless one." "Perhaps," he said, ever the optimist. "Perhaps." Then he embraced her again and departed. It was, the archivist suddenly realized, the last human contact she was likely to ever have.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

The fact that God uses anthropomorphisms—human traits attributed to a nonhuman subject—to talk about himself is a powerful indicator of the value of imagination and human imagery in communicating and understanding truth.

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it … and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

Talking with friends about books harks back to the original impulse behind storytelling, the forging of human bonds. We have told ourselves stories not just, in Joan Didion's phrase, in order to live, but in order to live with one another.

Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Spiritual

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit

Nós não somos seres humanos a ter uma experiência espiritual. Somos seres espirituais a ter uma experiência humana.

As the Christian mystics taught, you are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.

Emotions are the most toxic substances known to man,' wrote Nilsen.