Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit… — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image
Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Another very common use, in all cultures, of psychoactive substances is to give people transcendent experiences. To allow them to transcend their… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint.… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog. — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account. — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors. — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
