Nature of man Quote by Janisse Ray Download Open image ““Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?”” — Janisse Ray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature of man
“Our pain can refine us or make us bitter. We can look at the world with deeper grace or we can build walls. I… — Natasha Metzler Copy Share Image
“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.” — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
“Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“We all have hurts. But to each one who suffers, his is the greatest.” — Susan Van Volkenburgh Copy Share Image
“We are fragile beings,yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt,and as though we couldn't hurt other people.” — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
“...inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
All I can say about Juliette of the Herbs is that it has made me look at how my life is now, still close… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act. I want to stress… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.” — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“I think of my own life, how it embraces a great quest to know every cog of nature--the names of oaks and ferns, the… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Turning back to embrace the past has been a long, slow lesson not only in self-esteem, but in patriotism—pride in homeland, heritage. It has… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods. — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image