Being Human Quotes
235 quotes by 203 authors
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I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.
— Ellen Glasgow
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What a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
— Richard Rorty
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The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do…
— Ani DiFranco
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Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
— Simon Sinek
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Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition…
— Henri Nouwen
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We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons…
— Dionne Warwick
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I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding…
— Diane Ackerman
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Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being…
— Tim Hansel
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Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
— Tony Robbins
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If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is…
— Dalai Lama
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Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.
— Robert Monroe
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself,…
— Nathaniel Dorsky
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The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it.…
— Jeff Buckley
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Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
— Michael Gungor
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God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence…
— Harold S. Kushner
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No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care…
— R. J. Palacio
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Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know…
— Desmond Tutu
Who Wrote These Being Human Quotes
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