“Only humans can know what it means to strip a human being of being human.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again… — Jesse Lacey Copy Share Image
It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human. — Kim Deal 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
“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
No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse… — Dan Simmons 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
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
I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other… — Hillary Clinton 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
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 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
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain… — Thomas George Bonney 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 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
“We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
