Fully Human Quotes

56 quotes by 43 authors

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person… — Abraham Maslow
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human. — Hillary Clinton
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief… — Ed Mayo
The most thankful person is the most fully human. — Thomas Goodwin
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. — Patricia Deegan
One does not become fully human painlessly. — Rollo May
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his… — Murray Rothbard
Feminist art... will take the great human themes â€“ love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself â€“ and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine. — Thomas Keating
I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great… — David Suzuki
We need literature because we wouldnâ€™t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat
The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully… — Carleton S. Coon
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte
Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic… — Greg Graffin
Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human. — Pedro Arrupe

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