Best 192 quotes in «being human quotes» category

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Merely being human is morally significant.

Music is part of being human.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

Sometimes being human sucks.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

The essence of being human is being creative.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

A being of conscience would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water – such a being would be like the ant that can consume the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer

Aggression knows no distinction between human and inhuman action.

As it turned out, being human was every bit as much fun as she'd always thought it would be.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.