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Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said"Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'")digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, loveand I'm sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other?
— Elizabeth Alexander, American Sublime: Poems
Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human
— Steven Magee, Light Forensics
The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards.
— Priyavrat Thareja
All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out of them. I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with India rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces. Tin people! It’s all a steady sort of bolshevism just killing off the human thing, and worshipping the mechanical thing. Money, money, money! All the modern lot get their real kick out of killing the old human feeling out of man, making mincemeat of the old Adam and the old Eve. They’re all alike. The world is all alike: kill off the human reality, a quid for every foreskin, two quid for each pair of balls. What is cunt but machine-fucking! — It’s all alike. Pay ’em money to cut off the world’s cock. Pay money, money, money to them that will take spunk out of mankind, and leave ’em all little twiddling machines.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover:
The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
Energy fields define who we are as humans.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4,900 feet.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans.
— Steven Magee, Light Forensics
The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.
— Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.
— Steven Magee
It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.
— Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half."~ Emmeline Pankhurst
— Emmeline Pankhurst, The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement
Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider’s ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.
— Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Try not to be self-conscious […] or so critical. Don’t mope around looking for someone else to make you happy, and remember that the vast majority of homosexuals are looking for a superman to love and find it very difficult to love anyone merely human, which we unfortunately happen to be.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist
When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Timmy has no intention of going on the trip. He has never been on a sightseeing tour before and according to him, he is never going on one, end of discussion. Who wants to see a stupid planet called Earth, anyway?
— Amanda Dubin, Last Stop, Earth
Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
One of my friends compared me to Bruce Banner, due to my work with radiation and human health. So I looked up Bruce Banner and this is what I found: Banner, a physicist, is sarcastic and seemingly very self-assured when he first appears in Incredible Hulk #1, but is also emotionally withdrawn in most fashions...Banner is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test." He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology, and nuclear physics.
— Steven Magee
Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why. You could argue that’s what makes us interesting, and maybe it is to some alien race studying us from a million miles away. From where I sit it just seems pathetic and sad.
— Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
The only things flawless about me are my flaws.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean you have to talk about them some people may have problems in life and you making rumors can lead to stress and cause the person to kill themselves. This world is filled with crazy people and drunks and anything you can imagine. Instead of making people's lives worse try to help and make it better. God made each and every human with his love, but no one is perfect.
— Carley Sutherlin
The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who’s who straight. So don’t be surprised if they don’t remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.
— James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins
The principle of God is every human created for the help of other human to survive the journey of life but the principle of God gonna wrong way, as now human are the main cause of destruction of other human.
— Arbab Jehangir
Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.
— Even Engesland
In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They’ve been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.
— Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life
A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.
— Sangita Pareek
You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.
— Ayn Rand
When humans began cultivating the land, they thought that the extra work this required will pay off. 'Yes, we will have to work harder. But the harvest will be so bountiful! We won't have to worry any more about lean years. Our children will never go to sleep hungry.' It made sense.If you worked harder, you would have a better life. That was the plan.The first part of the plan went smoothly. People indeed worked harder. But people did not foresee that the number of children would increase, meaning that the extra wheat would have to be shared between more children.Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases.They did not foresee that by increasing their dependence on a single source of food, they were actually exposing themselves even more to the depredations of drought. Nor did the farmers foresee that in good years their bulging granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.
— Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות
If a sperm can give the berth to a human. Definitely sperm is powerful energy. So never waste it and burn this energy inside your body then see the difference.Science doesn't know more than 0.000% about the universe.Science is not even able to measure the strength of trust,true love,feelings and all.If science is everything then why we are not able to find our real life problem with science.We can't find our true match with the help of science.I have proved it that inner science is more powerful than outer science.
— Deshwal Sachin
we need love thats why we love ,seriously we are slave of our needs and requirements
— faamin
I suppose a human's carriage is a dwarf's bus.
— Ben Willoughby, Gods on the Mountain
Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life.
— Chris Matakas
Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by
— Anonymous
Some days are hard on us. Life gets serious and shit sucks. But you're my favorite distraction, attraction and human being. And, I can't wait to love you more tomorrow.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build
— Matt Haig, The Humans
Because I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.
— Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead
Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions
— rassool jibraeel snyman
When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Somehow human authority is never enough
—  we must have special effects.
It needs a very long time to earn a great respect but it just needs a few second to spoil all respect...
— Shehryar
Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
What is the meaning of the sportive forms of God? The manifestation of God within the body. At first He manifests Himself within a human body and then shows His sportive forms. It means that after manifestation He shows the seer His different forms, teaches and advices and the seer will see and listen – this is the real sportive forms of God.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!
— Carl William Brown, Aforismi geniali di William Shakespeare.
To err is human, but to err on the side of compassion is humane.
— Karl Schmidtt
How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is.
— Debasish Mridha
This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.
— Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer
To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
— Sherwood Anderson
The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.
— Carl William Brown, Aforismi. Volume primo.
In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.
— Nutan Bajracharya
From the perspective of my old laptop,I am a numbers man,something like thatevery instruction he gives me is a one or a zeroI remember wellI have information about him before he left for his new toythinner, younger, able to keep up with him,I have information about himmay 15th 2008, he listened to a songfive times in succession it was titled Everybody, open parenthesis, Backstreet's Back, close parenthesisit included the lyric'Am I sexual, yeaaaaah'He said once, computers like a sense of finality to themwhen I write something I don't want to be able to run from itthis was a liehe was addicted to my ability to keep his secretsI am a numbers man,every instruction he gives me is a one, or a zeroI remember wellJanuary, 7th 2007I was youngjust two week awakehe gave me, a new series of one's and zerosthe most sublime sequence I have ever seenit had curves, and shadow, it was himhe gave his face in numbersand trusted me to be the artist, and I wasdo not laughI have read about your Godyou kill each other over your grand fathers memory of himI still remember the fingertips of my God dancing across my bodyAfter I learnt to draw himhe trusted with more art rubricjpeg 1063 was his favouriteHim, and that woman, resting her head in the curve of his nickI read his correspondenceshe hasn't written him back in yearsbut he asks for it, constantly,jpeg 1063, jpeg 1063, jpeg 1063it was my master piece it looked so, .., life likeI wanted to tell himThat's not herthat is methat is not her facethose are my ones and zeroswaltzing in space for youshe is nothing more than my shadow puppetyou do not miss her, you miss me,I am a numbers man,every instruction he gives is a one or a zeroI remember wellbut he taught me to be a Da Vinci and I sit here, with his portraits waiting for him to returnI do not think he willIs that what it means to be humanto be all powerful, to build a temple to yourselfand leaveonly the walls to pray
— Phil Kaye
They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
— Frederick Douglass
Why, you'll be 'changed, m'dear. We'll just swap you for a human child who'll make a good servant to the Band. Half Humans never work out 'mongst the Folk. No, never do.""But--I'm half Folk too... What if I never work out 'mongst the humans?""Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
— Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Black Friday – (AKA Zombie Apocalypse)Is an event of subset half-dead human like beings confronted with ravenous bloodthirsty monsters preparing to pummel down the doors mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving Day.
— Sage R Fury
I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
I don't do it for Michael. I do it for them.""Them?""People.""They're broken! Flawed!""Yes, but some of them try to do better. Try to forgive.
— Gabriel and Lucifer
Dignity is the only one thing I have chosen over rules and benefits of slavery. I am not perfect because I chose to be myself
—  a human and this is the simplest form of dignity.
Life is easy with a little offer and Competitive with facts.
— Aloysius Jnr.
I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts
— Munia Khan
Life is a Rainbow of many shades and colours...
— k.j. force
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
— Tushar Upreti
The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.
— Kip S. Thorne, The Science of Interstellar
We poetically construct our identity as human beings, together with our values, largely through reciprocal relationships with animals. They provide us with essential points of reference, as well as illustrations of the qualities that we may choose to emulate or avoid in ourselves. Any major change in our relationships with animals, individual or collective, reverberates profoundly in our character as human beings, in ways that go far beyond immediately pragmatic concerns. When a species becomes extinct, something perishes in the human soul as well.
— Boria Sax, The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia Of Animals In World Myth, Legend, And Literature
A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.
— Shawn Lukas
I am so scared of what will kill me in the end for I am not prepared, I hope i'll get the chance to be someone, to be human, look what we've done
— Ellie Goulding
From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist dominator thought - a system in which the sinner is to be punished in this world by being transformed into an exploitable, of his cash, by the criminal/governmental combine that provides the addicitve substances. The image is more horrifying than that of the serpent that devours itself - it is once again the Dionysian image of the mother who devours her children, the image of a house divided against itself.
— Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources.
— Santosh Kalwar
It was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like a lambkin.""Not so," quoth the manWho had no fear of spirits;"It is only wrong for angelsWho can live like the flowers,Holding malice like the puppies,Waging war like the lambkins.
— Stephen Crane, Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
— Leo Tolstoy
The human body is a tube and tank machine with an electrical system that is made up of trillions of cells and two fluids, which are designed to create and react to chemistry. While this machine can malfunction, malfunctions can be fixed.” – Kevin W. Reese
— Kevin W. Reese
For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when he has no physical autonomy. In order to do so, he must know what choice is, and he must believe that he deserves it. By sharing stories, we keep choice alive in the imagination and in language. We give each other the strength to perform choice in the mind even when we cannot perform it with the body.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.
— Emily Gowor, The Inspirational Messenger: The 5 Pillars to Becoming Inspirational in Everything You Do
Humans can be anything you want, Only when alone.
— Arash Pakravesh, Love Story
One's nature is like a mountain
— Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
Certainly, we can no longer look upon the canon of Western art - Greco-Roman as revived, extended, and graced by the Renaissance - as -the- tradition in art, or even any longer as distinctly and uniquely -ours-. That canon is in fact only one tradition among many, and indeed in its strict adherence to representational form is rather the exception in the whole gallery of -human- art. Such an extension of the resources of the past, for the modern artist, implies a different and more comprehensive understanding of the term "human" itself: a Sumerian figure of a fertility goddess is as "human" to us as a Greek Aphrodite. When the sensibility of an age can accommodate the alien "inhuman" forms of primitive art side by side with the classic "human" figures of Greece or the Renaissance, it should be obvious that the attitude toward man that we call classical humanism - which is the intellectual expression of the spirit that informs the classical canon of Western art - has also gone by the boards.
— William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
He got worse as the night wore on. Tessa tried not to think about the wound, tried not to think about what she was going to do if he died and left her alone. Instead, she concentrated on doing what she could to keep the fever down and keep him comfortable, dragging a chair over to the side of the bed when she became too weary to stay awake any longer and dozing in it for short respites.Toward morning, he began to thrash about on the bed, muttering. She bathed his heated skin again and finally climbed into bed beside him. He quieted when she pulled his head against her breasts and stroked his hair soothingly.
— Kaitlyn O'Connor, When Night Falls
Halved. That was every time. My laughter was for idiots, for their unjustifiable idiocy and for myself for an unrelenting conviction to them, for that unforgivable instance I leveled myself to them. At that awkward realization knowing I precisely was an idiot too, that was the time when I really began to laugh.
— Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
Do women in love feel as men do? Do men love as women love? His virgin bride shared her pipe-frame bed all smiles and laughter. When they were intimate to the last degree on that bed, did Lou's experience join his, did his experience match hers, during this moment and that moment?
— Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a peculiar novelty: human awareness of the cycle of life and a capacity to anticipate our own, individual death.
— Richard J. Borden, Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.
— John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure
They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being.
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.
— Shaka Senghor, Writing My Wrongs
The only way we can touch the heart of men is to overlook an offense.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
Man is seldom judged on the basis of his good deeds. If bad in past the good in present doesn’t matter 
—  if bad in present the good done in past is forgotten. That's human!!
Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white skin (covered by only a perfunctory amount of hair) with fragile blue blood vessels visible through it; a soft, unprotected belly; ludicrous, impossibly shaped genitals; gangly arms and legs (just two of each!); a scrawny, breakable neck; an enormous, misshapen head with a tangle of stiff hair on its crown; two absurd ears, jutting out like a pair of seashells. Was this thing really him? Could a body so preposterous, so easy to destroy (no shell for protection, no weapons for attack), survive in the world?
— Haruki Murakami, Samsa in Love
I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.
— Roy Orbison
Not because I'm a christian doesn't mean I'm not human
— Kayla Davis
He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true
—  but they were human.
Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
You're like this...this goddess pretending to be human... And I don't know which one I love.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
Love Has No Color.... No Race.... Love Is Pure And Divine But Only A Little of Us Are Able To Preserve It's Purity.... Sadly, In This Digital World, Purity Is Rare To Find In Human....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
The human race is one of the few creatures whom can cry tears. If you look at us we are running around like small insects—all submerged in our own important errands. Everyone blind of whats going on underneath their own noses. We can be compassionate as well as evil. We can love and we can destroy. I will always wonder how the same creature can do both. Oxymoron.” Everything Changes, Always.
— Adrian Sandvaer, Bright Moments -  A Journey In The Human Mind
The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.
— Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
— Man Ray
The horrible monsters in this world are the ones that wear human face
— 69rascal
Sometimes being vulnerable as a child is not knowing what lies ahead. We think our choices will make a huge difference in our lives because our parents and other elders spend so much time making sure we think before we act and make our minds up about what we want to be “when we grow up”. Some are already at that stage early on, some are not. We learn the ways of the world all in good time, but being vulnerable is to be human. We never stop.
— Cyndi Goodgame, Gargoyle
Humans are amazing ritual animals, and it must be understood that the Tzutujil, nor any other real intact people, do not 'practice' rituals. Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birth itself was a ritual: there was not a ritual for birth, or a ritual for death, or a ritual for marriage, for death was a ritual, life a ritual, cooking a ritual, and eating were all rituals with ceremonial guidelines, all of which fed life. Sleeping was a ritual, lovemaking was a ritual, sowing, cultivating, harvesting, storing food were rituals, even sweeping, insulting, fighting were rituals, everything human was a ritual, and to all Tzutujil, ritual was plant-oriented and based on feeding some big Holy ongoing vine-like, tree-like, proceedance that fed us it's fruit.
— Martin Prechtel, The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive
Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure feelings, and I understand perfectly well that, for that very reason, you do not wish to receive money for what you have done. But pure unadultered feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth – firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon. The money is for that. To prevent you from feeling that you can do anything you want as long as it’s the right thing and your feelings are pure.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Grooming of Alice
Pages entertain me more than pictures do.
— Amit Kalantri
The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.
— Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.
— youssef
Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.
— John Paul II
To err is human, to accept full responsibility is to just run with it
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.
— Edward Bond, Coffee & The Bundle
I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me
— Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
One is to a human and other is to adopt humanity
— Qasim Raza Qadri
No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever becomplete without an honourable and detailed reference to PunditKanhaiya Lal Misra and the multifaceted and many splendoured trailthat he has left behind not only in the field of Law but in almost everyother sphere of noble human activity.
— Munindra Misra, PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.
— Nick Enright
Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and your character. This is the same for everyone.
— Da Xia, 長歌行 4 [Chang Ge Xing 4]
A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.
— M.H. Rakib
Better or worse, we are living such a fallacious world, where people like to seek their own interests in in others' matters.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since I’ve come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address as Bitawkdakinna. I don’t know enough Abenaki to be sure it’s a real word, but translated, it is the world between. I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though our vein's to be someone/something much more than human.
— sequence kye kenneth young
Regardless of what comes and goes on the stage, the stage is always just there. The people of the world are all actors, but if they own the stage, they become the masters. As masters, they will always be able to act on the stage.
— Woo Myung, Heaven's Formula For Saving The World
I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though or vein's to be someone much more than human.
— sequence kye kenneth young
Improving the human condition takes little effort
—  destroying it takes maximum force.
Without emotion, what's the point of being human?
— Marie Lu, Champion
One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.
— Amit Kalantri
Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.
— Amit Kalantri
she lived her life as a dragon and never understood those who didn’t. Why anyone would want to be human was beyond her understanding... And damn it all, she was brilliant!
— G.A. Aiken, Dragon Actually
Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions.
— Coreen T. Sol, Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
Few people when meet first time they feel that meeting each other was the purpose of their life.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.
— Amit Kalantri
You both talk too much,” the kid says. “Shut up. Don’t make me tell you again.”We shut up, which I find hysterically funny.
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses.
— Amit Kalantri
Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
People need appreciation from more persons than they need love from one person.
— Amit Kalantri
If you are not satisfied with the things you have got then stop crying and start working and go get those things that will satisfy you.
— Amit Kalantri
Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday.
— Amit Kalantri
With true love you can win one person, with true passion you can win the world.
— Amit Kalantri
We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.
— Amit Kalantri
There are no boring jobs, only boring men.
— Amit Kalantri
You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.
— Amit Kalantri
Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble.
— Amit Kalantri
You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.
— Amit Kalantri
I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.
— Amit Kalantri
Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.
— Amit Kalantri
Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively.
— Amit Kalantri
A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.
— Amit Kalantri
You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.
— Amit Kalantri
I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.
— Amit Kalantri
I hate that our world makes it look like everyone is perfect but you. Each and every one of us is human. Why are all the flaw that we all have hidden like they're not real?
— Audrey Regan
Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.
— Amit Kalantri
Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.
— Amit Kalantri
Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.
— Rhonda Byrne, The Magic
It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.
— Amit Kalantri
All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.
— Amit Kalantri
Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.
— Amit Kalantri
Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.
— Amit Kalantri
You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.
— Amit Kalantri
Life is a funny, funny thing. Not the ‘ha-ha’ kind of funny, but an odd kind of funny. The kind of funny that you know exists, yet you can’t place your finger on. You know it’s there, and when the funny strikes, you feel it, but you can’t categorize it. It’s almost a feeling of melancholy, fixed with a tickle in your stomach and an odd loss of balance. This feeling catches you when you least expect it. Sometimes it’s better that way, sometimes it may feel like a curse. Regardless, once it passes, you feel different. You may even look different, though not to the naked eye. It may takes days or even months until you recognize the change within yourself, however apparent it may seem. One thing’s for sure: Once this funny thing strikes, you will never be the same.
— Leigh Hershkovich
If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.
— Amit Kalantri
So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.
— Amit Kalantri
Show some mercy to your 'time', don't always waste it.
— Amit Kalantri
People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.
— Amit Kalantri
To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.
— Amit Kalantri
Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive.
— Amit Kalantri
I have been loved enough, now I want to be respected.
— Amit Kalantri
If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.
— Amit Kalantri
I want people to respect me and not just my position.
— Amit Kalantri
How flimsy our existence is, how many conditions must exist and must continue to exist over the course of millions of years so that a single flower or a single pencil or a single book might exist... For a moment I felt like a string being strummed by thousands of fingers, and I closed my eyes. Our existence on this planet hangs by a thread, every tomato and every onion is such an enormous miracle you could collapse with awe in a vegetable market.
— Dror Burstein, Netanya
True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.
— Amit Kalantri
Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.
— Amit Kalantri
Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.
— Amit Kalantri
Try to act like a human, if you're not a one yet
— R.Gayan Priyankara
Humans have already experienced eternity. Sin has forced us to settle for time. If you want your eternity back, you have to spend time with the Eternal one!
— Garrett McCoy
Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.
— Amit Kalantri
The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point
— Amit Kalantri
Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.
— Amit Kalantri
Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.
— Amit Kalantri
Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.
— Amit Kalantri
Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.
— Amit Kalantri
Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition to become heroes.
— Amit Kalantri
Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete
—  because they are not heroes yet.
Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.
— Amit Kalantri
If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.
— Amit Kalantri
There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.
— Amit Kalantri
If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.
— Amit Kalantri
There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.
— Amit Kalantri
Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.
— Amit Kalantri
People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.
— Amit Kalantri
The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.
— Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
He was glad to be human. For sure, it was a great inconvenience to have to walk on two legs and wear clothes. There were so many things he didn’t know. Yet had he been a fish or a sunflower, and not a human being, he might never have experienced this emotion.
— Haruki Murakami, Samsa in Love
I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts of most . . . No, in the plant world, and especially among the flowering plants, fecundity is not an assault on human values. Plants are not our competitors; they are our prey and our nesting materials. We are no more distressed at their proliferation than an owl is at a population explosion among field mice . . . but in the animal world things are different, and human feelings are different . . . Fecundity is anathema only in the animal. "Acres and acres of rats" has a suitably chilling ring to it that is decidedly lacking if I say, instead, "acres and acres of tulips".
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dream Lies In Your Eyes.
— non else
This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods) will have to come down again and attain to salvation through a human body. Man alone attains to perfection, not even the Devas.
— Swami Vivekananda
There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE FOUNDATION OF ALL BEING, is some powerful and reassuring and accessible image of OURSELVES... and that, more than any of their particular factual inaccuracies - is what bothers me the most about them. It is precisely the business of resisting that demand, it is precisely the business of approaching the world with open and authentic wonder, and with a sharp, cold eye, and singularly intent upon the truth, that's called science.
— David Z. Albert
Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night.
— Steve Maraboli
Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Animals cannot have any high thoughts
—  nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.
Today is my last day as a human, tomorrow I am going to be a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes.
— Amit Kalantri
I do have faith in humanity but I don’t have faith in humans.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
— Cyril Ponnamperuma
What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides
—  maybe all sides are man!
Meet everyone with utmost respect and heartfelt love. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, POET 2013– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.
— E.D. Baker, Dragon's Breath
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
— Daniel Suarez, Daemon
I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.
— Ankita Singhal
Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars