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Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito. So here the monkeys were, poking the shiny box and making guesses about what it did.
— James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
God knows the motive of every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
We are good souls with good heart for good deeds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we understand each other, we can live together in harmony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sacred servant communicates the sacred words to the souls of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Angels are just beyond us. They’re creatures that biology doesn’t apply to. They don’t love humanity at all. They just love God.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.
— Thomas Jefferson, Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.
— Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Life is for sharing, service and specific fulfillment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Why people want stuff which make them transcendent or transcendence?? And then they just destroy it?? Why Humanity wants something and then destroy it?? THere are a lot of examples one of them is the film "Transcendence
— Deyth Banger
Giving is sharing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm very curious where can it put you life without to have a target. It's like to push something which doesn't do anything, but what happens??If I push something to much times it brokes, but what happen with the humanity without a target?
— Deyth Banger
We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.
— Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
You are my brother. You are my sister. We are one human family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite.
— Kamand Kojouri
Every human being has the right to respected for his or her own merits or demerits. Respect their personal right to live according to their preference or submission to their faith. No one should be condemned for choosing a life path even if it something you disapprove. We are not here to condemn but to understand and let the sinners as you say be the responsibility of God. Our task is to prevent more chaos and conflict in this universe. Only kindness can do that.
— Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao
To preserve the past is to save the future...
— Nanette L. Avery
And," my dad concluded, calming down a little, "all our dignity consists in just that. I mean, man's little and can't fill time and space, but he sure can make use of the brain God gave him.
— Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.''But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?
— Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective
God has enough blessings for every soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With faith, I love without any fear.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May we live happily together in harmony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sacred souls serve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Better world's when we change by simulating the technology NOT the Homo sapiens
— binarybijay
The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.
— Paul Watson
The sacrifice and service gives full strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is all we need.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What do we live for? If not to give what you have and share life with other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
Love binds all souls in sacred harmony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film.
— Deyth Banger
Trials teach us patience and patience leads us to a place of hope
— Paul Gitwaza
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.I stand with all countries affected by these inhumane acts.Because of this; I am not France, I am not Belgium, nor am I Syria. I am what is left of humanity.I am compassion, I am kindness, I am love. I am the strength that those in fear rely on. I am the fight against terror.
— Aimée Jones
When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.
— bell hooks
I send this message to humankind to accentuate on the goodness of all living beings WHO form an important part of humanity.--Thank you for thinking of me, dear friend. For being concerned about my personal welfare the same way I feel about yours.Thank you for the smile of friendship you always sent my way, the wind has blown it to my direction.The world may proclaim your greatness, but it is your inner character dear great HUMANKIND that touched my soul for we are partners in making this universe a better place to live in.
— Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao
A committed citizens can move a country.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it is the most wonderful thing in the world, very probably the most wonderful thing in the universe.
— Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things: Essays
And what could the darkness be, other than humanity? This crushing, heavy mass of people who had no legitimate right to life. How many souls lived on earth now? Six billion? Seven? All of them like insects, crawling around on their hands and knees or slaughtering one another in pursuit of scraps. They were ignorant, they were cruel, they were the night that smothered the day. They did not deserve their existence.
— Alexander Gordon Smith, The Fury
Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death its cessation.
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
A lack of empathy is the biggest crime of all.
— A.S.L.
Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with others. The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group exalts her. Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity.Repeatedly in the testimony of survivors there comes a moment when a sense of connection is restored by another person’s unaffected display of generosity. Something in herself that the victim believes to be irretrievably destroyed---faith, decency, courage---is reawakened by an example of common altruism. Mirrored in the actions of others, the survivor recognizes and reclaims a lost part of herself. At that moment, the survivor begins to rejoin the human commonality...
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Love is the only reason that is reason enough
— Kamand Kojouri
My hours are filled with fantasy and indifference. In day and night dreams, I think of my heaven with you. All the time in between, I carelessly spend in hell without you.
— Kamand Kojouri
This one phrase, "It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and I'm sure that was not the intent. These people forget that we don't live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly. There are two kinds of people in this world--takers and givers. Takers eat well and givers sleep well. Givers have high self-esteem, a positive attitude, and they serve society. By serving society, I do not mean a run-of-the-mill pseudo leader-turned- politician who serves himself by pretending to serve others. As human beings, we all have the need to receive and take. But a healthy personality with high self-esteem is one that not only has its need to take but also to give.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love with God. But the greatest love story to me is how I didn’t notice myself falling, when I fell in love with you
— Kamand Kojouri
he had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it.
— Grace Crandall, Ashes
There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orders, instructions, duties, commands— and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called— there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Extremities are flawed. Moderation is ideal, save for one occasion.So damn these eyes that weep too much.This mind that thinks too much. But never this heart that loves too much.
— Kamand Kojouri
What is the point of a relationship if not to grant two people the very private privilege to uplift one another every day?
— Kamand Kojouri
Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why
— Kamand Kojouri
I guess that’s just how people are. We take for granted that we’ll always have the chance to tell someone what they mean to us. We take for granted that nothing is going to happen to them, and so we all walk around not realizing how much we’re loved. How much we’re valued.
— Debra Dockter, Deadly Design
Every day, we ought to extend kindness to one other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human.
— J.D. Radke
Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.
— André Alexis
I am just as human as the man.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are all unique, but we are also a part of the common body of humanity. With harmony, love, kindness, and compassion we can live together in joy and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
We often concentrate on the negative side of humanity. However, humanity is growing and maturing everyday and showing signs of a better future.
— Debasish Mridha
To help humanity, live with kindness and harmony.
— Debasish Mridha
We must not forget the beauty of humanity. At the core of our being, we must love humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
What are we fighting for?. We bring nothing into the world, we will take nothing into the grave.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I devote my sacred life to the service of humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I once spent a weekend on Earth,With two men (of science; and god)One man convinced me I did not exist,And the other that I was a fraud.In both men I saw the same reason,In bothmen i saw the same light,So I left for another dimension,Assuming that both men were right."- The AlienFrom the novel 'Ineffable
— C. Sean McGee, Ineffable
Understanding leads to peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark,And the living nations wait,Each sequestered in its hate;Intellectual disgraceStares from every human face,And the seas of pity lieLocked and frozen in each eye.
— W.H. Auden, Another Time
We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--those whom weobey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the mostfree, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties,--even those for whomhome holds no dear face, no familiar voice,--even they have to meet thespirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in itsvalleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its trees--amute friend, judge, and inspirer.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.
— Kamand Kojouri
The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.
— Kamand Kojouri
We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances.
— Umberto Eco, Five Moral Pieces
I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.
— Maya Angelou
People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.’ And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness.
— John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?
— Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.
— Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
Jesus can identify with our weaknesses or failures because He shared in our humanity in the flesh.
— E.N. Supen
Humans and their governments have effectively neutered the population to the point that they're just skinbags, mouth-breathers and pseudo-intellectuals repeating political, religious or academic rhetoric that they don't even understand!
— Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
Sow the seeds of love, kindness and peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The stronger the family, stronger the society.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They know how to eat, shit, drive their cars, do menial work, watch television and produce equally stupid spawns of themselves; what the hell are they doing to help mankind?
— Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
I suppose that’s an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there’s only the pain.
— Peter  Kirby, The Dead of Winter
God will certainly care for all His creation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One day, I was on the front lawn of the property and aimed the gun at a sparrow perched high in a tree. Hazel Goldreich, Arthur's wife, was watching me and jokingly remarked that I would never hit the target. But she had hardly finished the sentence when the sparrow fell to the ground. I turned to her and was about to boast, when the Goldreichs' son Paul, then about five years old, turned to me with tears in his eyes and said, "David, why did you kill that bird? Its mother will be sad." My mood immediately shifted from one of pride to shame; I felt that this small boy had far more humanity than I did. It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army.
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
Grief is an element of aliveness and the answer to the denial the market demands of us. It is an index of our humanity. It is proof of the presence of our relatedness to each other. It is a communal practice that recognizes that choosing the wilderness of vulnerability, mystery, and anxiety was a good and life-affirming choice.
— Walter Brueggemann, An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture
Transcendence and transformation of consciousness will create a new reality for humanity—not our economic success.
— Debasish Mridha
The key to opening the secret of humanity is to love and understand the beauty of it.
— Debasish Mridha
If you have inner peace, you can create peace everywhere.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let every human heart be open at spark of the light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are one in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Communism was born from a beautiful dream, the likes of which there will never be again on the face of this earth: that there would no longer be lazy men who eat their fill while others work hard and starve.
— Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
Here's an interesting form of murder we came up with: assassination. You know what's interesting about assassination? Well, not only does it change those popularity polls in a big fucking hurry, but it's also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Did you ever notice who it is? Stop to think who it is we kill? It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Jesus, Gandhi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, John Lennon, they all said, "Try to live together peacefully." BAM! Right in the fucking head. Apparently we're not ready for that.
— George Carlin
Dear Fellow Human Being,You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!Tell yourself,You do not deserve this!All those toxic words you have to listen from people,All those fears they try to pin on your mind,All those giggles they aim at your dreams,All those judgmental stares inspecting your individuality,All those fingers pointing towards your crude character,All those shackles that tie your feet to social expectations,All those cages that do not let your imagination fly free,Listen deeply, you do not deserve any of it.My dear fellow human, you do not deserve this hostility.You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!
— Jasz  Gill
Dear Fellow Human Being,You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!Tell yourself,You do not deserve this!All those toxic words you have to listen from people,All those fears they try to pin on your mind,All those giggles they aim at your dreams,All those judgmental stares inspecting your individuality,All those fingers pointing towards your crude character,All those shackles that tie your feet to social expectations,All those cages that do not let your imagination fly free,Listen deeply, you do not deserve any of it.My dear fellow human, you do not deserve this hostility.You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!― Jasz Gill
— Jasz Gill
All I’m trying to say is, be kind to yourself. This one life is all we’ve got, and we all make mistakes along the way. Do things we oughtn’t, fail to do those we should. See those moments for what they were. Learn from them what you can. And then stand up a little taller and keep marching forward. In the end it’s how we keep going that matters. The world won’t remember our falls unless we never pick ourselves up.
— J. Leigh Bralick, A Dark So Deep
It's a little weird that I'm getting an award for being nice and generous and kind... which is what we're all supposed to do for one another. That's the point of being human. I think that kindness is an innate quality that we all have. We need to see more of it in the world. I want everyone to know that we all really, really love one another. Deep down, we all love one another. We need to get back to that. My wish is that we all try.
— Ellen DeGeneres
The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.
— Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero
Positive;Positive mindset, positive soul.Positive soul, positive spirit.Positive spirit, positive strength.Positive strength, positive action.Positive action, positive impart.Positive impact, positive society.Positive society, positive world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Give what you possess.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you are motivated by the kindness and wellbeing of humanity, then nothing can scare or derail you.
— Debasish Mridha
The beauty of nature-humanity:Animal is animal.Book is book.Forest is forest.Happiness is happiness.Human is human.Joy is joy.Mountain is mountain.Music is music.Ocean is ocean.Life is life.Light is light.Love is love.Plant is plant.Peace is peace.Stream is stream.Sun is sun.Spirit is spirit.Snow is snow.Rain is rainRainbow is rainbow.River is river.Wind is wind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love thy neighbor as much as you love thyself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peaceful coexistence is hallmark of peaceful world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Positive society, positive world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We belong together in love, in faith and in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Peace is peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression.
— Debasish Mridha
The most amazing people are those who love life and humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not important who you are
—  what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.
We are beautiful souls with beautiful spirits.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In everyday life, we ought to extend kindness towards one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Live together as united people in beautiful world
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stop Judging, Start Loving!
— Manali
Let us help each other
—  to be what we ought to be.
The key to every human heart is love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the strength of the human heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
— Frida Kahlo
Across the globe, even in the world's "worst places," people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own actions, their very lives, into a memorial that honored the people they had lost.
— Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?
— Randolph Randy Camp, 29 Dimes: A Love Story
This plague... This curse... I have an idea where it came from. I don't think it's from any spell or virus or nuclear rays. I think it's from a deeper place. I think we brought it here. I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some... dark place. We released it. We poked through the seabed and the oil erupted, painted us black, pulled our inner sickness out for everyone to see. Now here we are in this dry corpse of a world, rotting on our feet till there's nothing left but bones and the buzz of flies.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Humankind would be so bored if we already knew all the answers! The beauty of the Universe lies in our need to understand it, for that is what challenges us to acquire the knowledge and wisdom to reach great heights!
— JB  Richards, Miriamne the Magdala
The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.
— Fredric Brown, Letter to a Phoenix
We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factionalism, and that if factions grind their separate axes too vociferously, something mutual, precious, and human is in danger of being drowned out and lost.
— Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Throughout history--even a hundred years ago, even fifty--it was discontent that was considered the threat to society, the defiance of natural law, the danger that had to be exterminated at all costs. Now it's contentment,
— Tana French, The Likeness
The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
— Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Let us hug heart to heart in love!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
If you study the rhythm of life on this planet, you will find that everything moves in perfect symphony with everything else — by grand divine design. The earth has the ability to heal and regenerate itself, just as our oceans have the ability to replenish themselves by turning over their debris with the waves to wash them ashore. This perfect orchestration of the cycle of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. The earth will continue to exist with or without us. So the real concern should be, will we be able to continue to co-exist with each other?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn. (Chapter Twenty-Seven | 1 Hour, 29 Minutes)
— Michael  Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6)
To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
But first things first. First, to escape this shell, this egg in which I have gestated, all eyes will be on the fire, all eyes blinded by the smoke, and when I walk out of here, out into your large world with its billions, no one will even see. It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's even better than darkness. (Chapter Twenty-Seven | 1 Hour, 29 Minutes)
— Michael Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6)
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in--an interesting hole I find myself in--fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch-out for. We all know that at some point in the future the universe will come to an end, and at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there's plenty of time to worry about that, but on the other hand that's a very dangerous thing to say... I think that we need to take a larger perspective on who we are and what we are doing here if we are going to survive in the long term.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Every evil starts with 15 volts.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
Life is like a magical bud hoping to bloom into a beautiful flower that will beautify humanity with her petals of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
I was a king for a while. I wasn't a very good one. I wanted all kinds of things. I wanted, well, you know. Power. Glory. To be feared. All that good stuff. But you know what? When the gaiaphage did it to me, when she made me cry and grovel and beg for mercy, I realized: There's no end to this for me. There's no end to the FAYZ. If we get out alive, there's still no end. And what happens to me out there in the world?" "No, you're wrong they can't blame you for everything that happened." He laughed. "Yeah, well, actually, they can. A king, warrior, whatever I was, I want to go out in a blaze of glory. I've risen as high as I'm ever going to. And if I survive, I'm just going to end up as prisoner number three-one-two-whatever. You coming to see me on visiting days."  "But I will come see you. And I will wait for you." "No," he said firmly. "I get my big finish. And you get your life. Move on, Diana.
— Michael Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6) Chapter Twenty-Eight | 1 Hour, 10 Minutes
The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a reconciliation.
— Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
Those who donated their life for humanity lived a perfect life.
— Debasish Mridha
Babies are the buds of life ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity,' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?
— Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)
Posthuman. It was a word from advertising copy, breathless and empty, and all he’d ever thought it really meant was that the people using it had a limited imagination about what exactly humans were capable of.
— James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
You didn't make me responsible. You don't have that power. This"—he held up his hands, and light glowed from his palms—"this made me responsible. Having power made me responsible. I had the power and you had the brains. So we were chosen. That's the way it works, isn't it? People who can have to help those who can't. The strong defend the weak from the strong. I don't think you invented that, Astrid; all you did was make me see it. Well, I see it. There it is. The FAYZ gave me this light, and the FAYZ made it necessary. And now the light isn't helping, is it? Now that monster is going to walk into town and kill people I care about and people I love.
— Michael Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6) Chapter Twenty-Six | 2 Hours, 56 Minutes
But first things first. First, to escape this shell, this egg in which I have gestated, all eyes will be on the fire, all eyes blinded by the smoke, and when I walk out of here, out into your large world with its billions, no one will even see. It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's even better than darkness.
— Michael Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6) Chapter Twenty-Seven | 1 Hour, 29 Minutes
I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn.
— Michael  Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6) Chapter Twenty-Seven | 1 Hour, 29 Minutes
I am insane, does that surprise you? Ha! I think my mind is crumbling, just like crackers. If I had written five minutes earlier I would have wept, if I had written ten minutes earlier I would have told you to leave me alone, if I wait any longer I won’t write at all.
— @ neuroticdream Tumblr
When humanity suffers from the darkness of violence, I will bring the empathetic, soft, kind, light from the moon to enlighten humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
You didn't make me responsible. You don't have that power. This"—he held up his hands, and light glowed from his palms—"this made me responsible. Having power made me responsible. I had the power and you had the brains. So we were chosen. That's the way it works, isn't it? People who can have to help those who can't. The strong defend the weak from the strong. I don't think you invented that, Astrid; all you did was make me see it. Well, I see it. There it is. The FAYZ gave me this light, and the FAYZ made it necessary. And now the light isn't helping, is it? Now that monster is going to walk into town and kill people I care about and people I love. (Chapter Twenty-Six | 2 Hours, 56 Minutes)
— Michael Grant, Light (Gone Series, #6)
In the garden of humanity there are tigers and lion, deer and doves. Deer and doves live carefully but with beauty and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.
— Stephen Crane, The Blue Hotel
Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
— Albert Einstein
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
— Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
— Thomas A. Edison
When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
— Dr. Seuss
I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
— J.M. Barrie
Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though.”“Will it cost me anything?”“What? I just said it was free!” said Miss Tick.“Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive,” said Tiffany.Miss Tick sniffed. “You could say this advice is priceless,” she said, “Are you listening?”“Yes,” said Tiffany.“Good. Now...if you trust in yourself...”“Yes?”“...and believe in your dreams...”“Yes?”“...and follow your star...” Miss Tick went on.“Yes?”“...you’ll still be beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Goodbye.
— Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
— Aristotle
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...
— Tom Petty
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
— Anne Frank
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
— Jimmy Johnson
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
— Peter F. Drucker
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
— Hermann Hesse
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. 
— John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
— Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.
— Lady Gaga
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job
—  it’s a depression when you lose your own.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
— Dave Barry
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
— Bill Watterson
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983
— Winston S. Churchill
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
— Thomas A. Edison
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
— Charles Bukowski
I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
— Karl Lagerfeld
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
— Martin Luther
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
— Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse
What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. 
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.
— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.
— Robert Anderson
You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.
— Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
— Simon Sinek
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
— Henry Ford
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
— Frederick Douglass
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
— Edward Gorey
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.
— John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
— Newt Gingrich