Quotes About Human

The very characteristics of childhood I am describing—wonder, dependency, curiosity, optimism—are crucial to the growth and flowering of human life.

The Bible suggests that the origin of human bondage (original sin) is the desire to be other than who we are .

shame as a healthy human emotion can be transformed into shame as a state of being. As a state of being shame takes over one's whole identity. To have shame as an identity is to believe that one's being is flawed, that one is defective as a human being. Once shame is transformed into an identity, it becomes toxic and dehumanizing.

Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions, temporary in any case, a heroic achievement of human will and persistence at best. When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up.

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

Life is pretty much a selling job. Whether we succeed or fail is largely a matter of how well we motivate the human beings with whom we deal to buy us and what we have to offer. Success

She grieves because her grief is not an acute grief, and when I tell her that this sorrow over the inadequacies of her sorrow may be a new hue in the spectrum of human pain, she is not consoled.

Those were the only tears, that was the only smile, evoked from any human skull at the funeral of William Crow.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Difference between God and human. God gives gives gives and forgives. But human gets gets gets gets and forgets.

To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .

A tear is made of just 1% water, and 99% feelings.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mistakes make me human. Failure makes me stronger. Love keeps me alive. But its YOU who keeps me smiling.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.

Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human.

Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.