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Quotes About Human

Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes.
~ Pat Conroy
My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life.
~ Pat Conroy
Think instead about children. People. Human beings. Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.
~ Pat Conroy
It was a joyful and rapturous night, one that happens all too infrequently in the brief transit of human life. I can remember everything about that night, every play that either team ran, every block I missed or made, every tackle I was in on. I remember the feeling of complete, transported bliss that one can get only from athletics or lovemaking.
~ Pat Conroy
we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.
~ Patricia Crone
The longing for solitude is a deeply romantic passion. But then writing is a romantic thing to do, predicated on desire, urgency, and an ideal of human connection, hardly available in what we wistfully call real life.
~ Patricia Hampl
But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative.
~ Patricia Highsmith
A classic is something with a human situation.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Her insan cinayet iÅŸleyebilir. Durumlara baÄŸl?, yap?yla hiç ilgisi yok. KiÅŸi s?n?ra kadar gelir bazen-barda?? ta??ran damlada, tamam. Kim olursa olsun. Ninen bile iÅŸler. Bilmez miyim?
~ Patricia Highsmith
Hay una ley de suma importancia en la conducta humana. Si obedecemos esa ley, casi nunca nos veremos en aprietos. Si la obedecemos, obtendremos incontables amigos y constante felicidad. Pero en cuanto quebrantemos esa ley nos veremos en interminables dificultades. La ley es ésta: Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.
~ Dale Carnegie
True? Yes, she had told the truth, but few people like to listen to truths that reflect on their judgment. So, being human, I tried to defend myself.
~ Dale Carnegie
15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering
~ Dale Carnegie
We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.
~ Dale Carnegie
These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.
~ Dale Carnegie
Jim Farley descubrió al principio de su vida que el común de los hombres se interesa más por su propio nombre que por todos los demás de la tierra.
~ Dale Carnegie
If all we had to do was flatter, everybody would catch on and we should all be experts in human relations.
~ Dale Carnegie
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
~ Dallas Willard
God's presence is everywhere around us. God is able to penetrate intertwine himself within the fibers of the human self in such a way that those who are enveloped in His loving companionship will never be alone. page 59
~ Dallas Willard
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.
~ Dallas Willard
Genuine transformation of the whole person into the goodness and power seen in Jesus and his "Abba" Father—the only transformation adequate to the human self—remains the necessary goal of human life. But it lies beyond the reach of programs of inner transformation that draw merely on the human spirit—even when the human spirit is itself treated as ultimately divine.
~ Dallas Willard
Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose. Being
~ Dallas Willard
Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any other offer fails to do justice to the drama of human redemption, deprives the hearer of life's greatest opportunity, and abandons this present life to the evil powers of the age.
~ Dallas Willard
Genuine transformation of the whole person into the goodness and power seen in Jesus and his "Abba" Father—the only transformation adequate to the human self—remains the necessary goal of human life.
~ Dallas Willard
Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand.
~ Dallas Willard