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Human Quotes by Jean Vanier
- The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and…
- Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin…
- We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
- Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.
- I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid…
- But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded…
- The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless…
- [...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk…
- Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong