Quotes About Human

Because that's the thing about us human beings when we really love someone, we can be happy even while our heart is breaking.

For the first time I admit I am giving myself to love. Not the worship I offered the Old One, not the awe I felt for the spices. But human love, all tangled up, at once giving and demanding and pouting and ardent. It frightens me, the risk of it. And I see that the risk lies not in what I always feared, the anger of the spices, their desertion. The true risk is that I will somehow lose this love.

We forget that we are more than human beings on a spiritual journey; the fact is we're spiritual beings on a human journey.

Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

The dreams of my country are no different from yours -- they are as big as the human heart.

144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We want our place to stand.

My definition of magic emphasizes human connections with the universe, so that people are open to the workings of the universe and the universe is responsive to us.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

I turn to people for joy and its uniquely human antecedents, like inspiration and desire. I will never tire of hearing talented makers talking about their work. It's like a medicine that might be prescribed to you when you're feeling hopeless.

It returned suddenly about a week ago—the spirit of sex, like one of these little Roman gods, touching every part of my body, arousing them to the sacredness of pleasure. As if the veil was lifted and a new field of human possibility revealed.

So we have to recognize that species concepts are humanly produced categories which may or may not always work when compared with the reality of nature.

Schwer, langsam, aber endgültig habe ich mich von dem Glauben gelöst, dass unsere menschlichen Geschicke an den Gang der Gestirne geknüpft sind. Daß dort Seelen wohnen, ähnlich den unseren, die unser Dasein betrifft, und sei es, indem sie die Fäden, die es halten, mißgünstig verwirren.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Every faculty that naturally belongs to the human mind is latent in every mind, and it can be awakened and developed, provided the proper laws are faithfully applied.

History is a product of human agency, not blind fate.

Young people need to be loved, to put it as plainly as possible. They need to be engaged, challenged, mentored, and enjoyed. They, like every human being, need to be appropriately cared for, no matter how autonomous and self-sufficient they may think they are.

I believe that we make soul contracts with ourselves and other souls before incarnating into our human bodies.

I like to be busy," she says. "And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don't you?

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason—to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

At the same time that Lahn's results were published, another team of scientists based at the University of California, San Diego, announced the discovery of a positively selected gene called SIGLEC11 that is expressed in brain cells called microglia. Although they can't yet explain the effects of the gene, it is interesting because it is one of the very few found only in humans and not in our ape cousins. This could make it a candidate for explaining some of the differences between us and them.

At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

In just the last few years we have learned that 85 percent of all people carry DNA from Neanderthals, an entirely different species that lived until 27,000 years ago. If the research on the human genome hasn't completely destroyed the idea of genetic purity, our newly discovered Neanderthal ancestors show how truly absurd the notion is.

Judged by single nucleotides polymorphisms (or SNP) in DNA, the difference between people and chimpanzees is 1.23 percent, compared to around 0.1 percent difference in SNPs between two randomly picked humans.