Beings Quotes

3882 Beings quotes by 2151 unique authors

I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged in… — Jeff Buckley
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden… — Anandamayi Ma
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like… — John A. Keel
It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no… — Chris Hedges
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. — John Powell
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to… — Dalai Lama
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due… — Gautama Buddha
It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings — M. Scott Peck
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,… — Howard Zinn
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear… — Dalai Lama
The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start… — Rick Warren
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to… — Bill Hybels
I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings. — Stefan Zweig
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or… — Fritjof Capra
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of… — Howard Barker
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has… — Greta Christina
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better.… — Thomas Ligotti
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many… — Marvin Olasky
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as… — Kenneth Burke
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will… — Gaylord Nelson
The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love. — James Van Praagh
Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings. — Allison DuBois
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men. — William Blake

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