Beings Quotes

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What unites all beings is their desire for happiness. — Dalai Lama
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity. — Brennan Manning
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas.… — Dalai Lama
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan… — David Simon
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when… — Joseph Campbell
Made in the perfect image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent… — Stasi Eldredge
If you want to help sentient beings, you have to get your hands dirty. — Unknown Author
We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around. — Oprah Winfrey
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues. — Nicole Kidman
Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate… — Gavin de Becker
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose… — Carolyn Heilbrun
A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being… — Catherine Ryan Hyde
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives — Charlotte Gray
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in… — Thomas Malthus
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a… — Shin Kyung-sook
Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money. — Guru Nanak
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the… — Ashley Montagu
The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and… — H. P. Blavatsky
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. — R. D. Laing
Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to the governance of… — Dallas Willard
Finally, if life happened by chance on this earth and evolved upward, then it could seemingly happen elsewhere in the universe. But if, as we… — Dave Hunt
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It… — David Korten
We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth. — Jacob Needleman

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