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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen KellerRead
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
Isadora DuncanRead
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
Berkeley BreathedRead
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
Reid HoffmanRead
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
John MiltonRead
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.
Ross PerotRead
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George OrwellRead
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Aldous HuxleyRead
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
John Kenneth GalbraithRead
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
Carl SaganRead
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
James F. CooperRead
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William JamesRead
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Lin YutangRead
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.
Ram DassRead
Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
Matt HaigRead
Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 88. Which is to say: don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.
Matt HaigRead
Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
Matt HaigRead
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Nick CaveRead
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
Robert BallardRead

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