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3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose… — Barbara De Angelis
The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness… — Sigmund Freud
Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them… — Unknown Author
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we… — Lewis Thomas
Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is… — Unknown Author
There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable… — Robin Quivers
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. — George Eliot
If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can… — Daisaku Ikeda
Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living… — Albert Schweitzer
Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively… — Karen Horney
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people. — Benjamin Spock
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if… — Edward Abbey
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. — Edward Abbey
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. — Edward Abbey
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs… — Michael Chekhov
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in… — Hannah Arendt
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. — Unknown Author
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a… — Ralph Ellison
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is… — Jimmy Carter
I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space,… — Ronald Reagan

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