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title: "15 Essential Human Quotes by 13 authors"
description: "Browse 15 Essential Human quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Essential Human sayings and thoughts."
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> [The basic and essential human is the woman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/the-basic-and-essential-human-is-the-woman/)

[Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/)

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> [Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galen/employment-is-nature-s-physician-and-is-essential-to-human-happiness/)

[Galen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/galen-34937_employment_employment-is-nature-s-physician-and-is_2739823.jpg)

> [I believe that work is essential to human well-being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moshe-vardi/i-believe-that-work-is-essential-to-human-well-being/)

[Moshe Vardi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moshe-vardi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/moshe-vardi-22549_believe_i-believe-that-work-is-essential-to-huma_1756441.jpg)

> [“Attachment within relationships is essential to human well-being ...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/attachment-within-relationships-is-essential-to-human-well-being/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/819/anonymous-1_attachment_attachment-within-relationships-is-essen_3006254.jpg)

> [Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron-lytton/personal-liberty-is-the-paramount-essential-to-human-dignity-and/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron-lytton/)

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> [Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-hillenbrand/dignity-is-as-essential-to-human-life-as-water-food-and-oxygen/)

[Laura Hillenbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-hillenbrand/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/laura-hillenbrand-3813_dignity_dignity-is-as-essential-to-human-life-as_2886715.png)

> [Boredom is essential for the human to get up and do something..](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-maxey/boredom-is-essential-for-the-human-to-get-up-and-do-something/)

[Matthew Maxey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-maxey/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b0/matthew-maxey-81711_boredom_boredom-is-essential-for-the-human-to-ge_1416777.jpg)

> [Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hammond-bennett/out-of-the-long-list-of-nature-s-gifts-to-man-none-is-perhaps-so/)

[Hugh Hammond Bennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hammond-bennett/)

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> [What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dani-shapiro/what-s-more-important-that-spiritual-life-it-seems-to-me-it-s-the/)

[Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dani-shapiro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e23/dani-shapiro-2273_bedrock_what-s-more-important-that-spiritual-lif_1088580.png)

> [Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-o-brien/storytelling-is-the-essential-human-activity-the-harder-the-situation/)

[Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-o-brien/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/tim-o-brien-1818_activity_storytelling-is-the-essential-human-acti_1758807.png)

> [Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-hillenbrand/dignity-is-as-essential-to-human-life-as-water-food-and-oxygen-the/)

[Laura Hillenbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-hillenbrand/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e5/laura-hillenbrand-3813_body_dignity-is-as-essential-to-human-life-as_1468378.jpg)

> [“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohsin-hamid/what-she-was-doing-what-she-had-just-done-was-for-her-not-about/)

[Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohsin-hamid/)

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> [“To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-lathan/to-be-essential-to-another-human-being-to-be-vulnerable-to-have/)

[Sharon Lathan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-lathan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/008/sharon-lathan-36834_love_to-be-essential-to-another-human-being-t_671139.jpg)

> [Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-taylor/unless-we-give-part-of-ourselves-away-unless-we-can-live-with-other/)

[Harold Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-taylor/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/harold-taylor-62827_essentials_unless-we-give-part-of-ourselves-away-un_329704.jpg)

> [“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-hillenbrand/dignity-is-as-essential-to-human-life-as-water-food-and-oxygen-the-2/)

[Laura Hillenbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-hillenbrand/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/423/laura-hillenbrand-3813_dignity_dignity-is-as-essential-to-human-life-as_1645966.png)

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