Best 192 quotes in «being human quotes» category

When you are dealing with difficulties and you feel like you don't have the strength to stand anymore, do not allow yourself to see that as a sign of weakness, it is just a sign that you are human. Allow someone who cares to be strong for you. It is easier to be strong for someone else than it is it to be strong for yourself.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.

Yes, I value emotions deeply. Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life. If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human, Why do people suppress feeling them ? Does the bruising scare them ? Than I wonder who is weak ?

You are as you are until you're not. You change when you want to change. You put your ideas into action in the timing that is best. That's just how it happens. And what I think we all need more than anything is this: permission to be wherever the fuck we are when we're there. You're not a robot. You can't just conjure up motivation when you don't have it. Sometimes you're going through something. Sometimes life has happened. Life! Remember life? Yeah, it teaches you things and sometimes makes you go the long way around for your biggest lessons. You don't get to control everything. You can wake up at 5 a.m. every day until you're tired and broken, but if the words or the painting or the ideas don't want to come to fruition, they won't. You can show up every day to your best intentions, but if it's not the time, it's just not the fucking time. You need to give yourself permission to be a human being.

You feel the fragrance of goodness not only in the mere physical presence of a person, but also in the words he uses and the acts he performs. It all leaves you more perfumed.

You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.

You’re human, and sometimes the vagaries of life are just too delicious to ignore.

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.

Being human is overrated.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

Music is part of being human.

I'm obsessed with being human.

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.

Merely being human is morally significant.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

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.

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

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

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