Our Humanness Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Perhaps the biggest obstacle to loving yourself and living your Spirit is the belief that you can only do so when all your problems are…
— Sonia Choquette
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We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.
— Sonia Choquette
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Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to…
— John Zerzan
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Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves…
— Simon Van Booy
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Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we…
— Sonia Choquette
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our…
— Tara Brach
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We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
— Jean Vanier
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There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how…
— Carlos Castaneda
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We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,…
— Elif Safak
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Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a…
— Neil Abramson
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
— Sigmund Freud
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Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah…
— Os Guinness
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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration…
— Tom Stoppard
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If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if…
— Inga Muscio
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Our sensitivity to personal guilt is a fundamental trait of our humanness that distinguishes us from animals. To try to suppress the conscience is in…
— John Macarthur
Who Wrote These Our Humanness Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Humanness Quotes as follows: