What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I think anything that increases your understanding of the human condition... I think age and life, if you're lucky, makes you think… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
“In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man’s… — Frédéric Gros Copy Share Image
“People say there is the mind, body and spirit, as if they're all separate elements. I don't think that's accurate. The mind… — Damon Thueson Copy Share Image
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work,… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the… — Gerald Carson Copy Share Image
“Lewis was a scholar and deeply spiritual man, so it is no surprise that all his characters have to face the complex… — E.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“I can't bear to look at the screen itself, the women in pastels, like so many Jordan almonds. The men in suits,… — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Confident that cast-iron walls separate our nature and situation from theirs, comfortable in the well-broken-in saddle of our high horse, we have… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
“I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I have a real issue with anyone trying to protect children from their own imaginations. If we cannot acknowledge that a lot… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Today Chanya is kikiat and won’t be doing any work of any kind. Kikiat is usually translated as “lazy,” which is misleading… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You get so caught in the world, that in the end you lose yourself to it. The time comes when you've had… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're… — Delilah Copy Share Image
My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
“People who felt scared or desperate enough could do almost anything, even things that are extremely out of their character to do;… — J M Northup Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would… — William B. Irvine Copy Share Image
It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet and people have seen shows that I'm proud of… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself… — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
