Being human Quotes · Page 4

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

— Maximus the Confessor

There's no victory-condition for being human.

— Bruce Sterling

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

— Henri Nouwen

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.”

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

— James Earl Jones

Snowflakery is simply being human, which makes it a pretty flakey insult.

— Faith Salie

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

— James Madison

God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of…

— Francis of Assisi

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part…

— Jack Nicholson

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

— Terry Pratchett

Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.

— Katty Kay

There is nothing like a merciless human, those who are merciless, they are not human but creatures.

— Senoraroy

The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.

— David Hepworth

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

— Anne Lamott

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

— Andrew Keen

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism…

— Graham Harvey

Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and…

— Robert J. Waldinger

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to…

— Deontay Wilder

God never stated that a creature with two legs and two hands will be a human,but by human he meant humanly feelings,we…

— Senoraroy

Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all…

— Dalai Lama

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,…

— Edith Wharton

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the…

— Seth Godin

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's…

— Pete Docter

Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the…

— Anonymous

Four years ago, I was thinking… no Olympics, who am I? Probably in ’04, I was identified with gymnastics. I thought gymnastics…

— Raj Bhavsar

In life, friendships change, divorces happen, people move on, others die. Money and jobs will come and go. Live long enough and…

— Les Brown

“A few quotes to entice you: "I never used to do this, dwelling on things and getting myself all worked up, but…

— Lisa Ridzén

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an…

— Annia Ciezadlo

The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that…

— George Ogilvie

Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us…

— Marielle Heller

I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little…

— Jeff Mangum

“There's a difference between Homo Sapiens and Human - Homo Sapiens is a meaningless technicality, Human is a lived promise.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

— Ayad Akhtar

I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.

— Margaret Whitlam

Seeing yourself reflected on screen is a very important part of being human. It makes us feel less alone, it make us…

— Marielle Heller

“Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

— Mariella Frostrup

Its all our own wish, either we live like a coward and die or we like a hero and…..die.

— Senoraroy

“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?”

— Mary Oliver