What Is It To Be Human Quotes

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.

Prayer is inward communication with yourself

How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

Do we have to say goodnight? It just feels so final.... And then it feels like I HAVE to go to sleep, and then I just can't...

While some people want to be popular, some of us simply want to be brave.

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

All I want in my life is-My mind to Think and My body to Run.

The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you.

In order to thrive, connect to and engage in what is Life-Generating and avoid or prevent what is Life-Depleting in any way you can.

The way you perceive your Self is what enables, or disables, you.

Perception believed is reality achieved

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved.

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

Thus, on a functional level, your meditation triggers the corresponding neurobiological networks that are responsible for eliciting health effects.

Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.

Human beings can handle much terrible circumstances in life. And that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.--Here Tomorrow

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.

If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

When she tells you her problems she is not moaning, she trusts you.

This is what the Others have done to us. You can’t band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Not only the products, even we come with the expiry date

My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life

So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.

To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I’m going to err towards beating you with this stick.

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer to human reality.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

in these shitty plastic days ...

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.