Quotes About Human

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable.

When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that's called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for this is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.

THE BUDDHA TAUGHT that there are three principal characteristics of human existence: impermanence, egolessness, and suffering or dissatisfaction. According to the Buddha, the lives of all beings are marked by these three qualities. Recognizing these qualities to be real and true in our own experience helps us to relax with things as they are. When

Another word for this is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.