So how on earth can I bring a child into the world…

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large…

— Anne Lamott

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

— Christopher McDougall

The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever…

— Tahereh Mafi

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

— Desmond Tutu

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Poetry calls into question what it means to be human

— Sandra Alcosser

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

— James Gleick

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we…

— Terry Tempest Williams

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care…

— Jeanette Winterson

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

— Kelly McGonigal

Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in…

— John Green

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

— Ayad Akhtar

Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.

— Russell D. Moore

“No one can know sincere happiness, without 1st knowing sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity & rareness of such a fiery bliss without…

— Fisher Amelie

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it…

— Anne Lamott