The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It was the price of survival. The cost of his people's last, desperate gamble: To rid his new home of humanity, he… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human?… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I think that the whole idea of ‘no regrets’ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all… — Jesse Lacey Copy Share Image
If yoga is about life, this means ALL life, not just part of it. Together, the spiritual and the material constitute the… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a… — Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I always tend to gravitate toward the idea of things being human: that this isolation I feel as an Asian American, even… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You're successful if you know how to brighten up your life. You're human if you know how to brighten up your life… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Once you start being conscious of the repetitive motions that we all just accept as part of being human, you realize how… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to… — David Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
It is important to not be hostile to what a greater part of society has embraced, whether as Christians, Hindus or Muslims.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“It was odd how that last deed caught the imagination of the world. All that Andrew had done before had not swayed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
