Human Beings Quotes

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.

Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.

There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.