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Being Human Quotes

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Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.
Maximus the Confessor

Authors on Being Human Quotes: Nick Hornby Ayad Akhtar Chelsea Handler Graham Harvey Stephen Levine Vidal Sassoon Kurt Vonnegut Carol Ann Duffy Richard Rorty Janet Fitch John Edgar Wideman Abraham Joshua Heschel Lana Del Rey Tommy Chong Alice Crary Chris Colfer Henry Cavill A.A. Attanasio Stephenie Meyer Ralph Waldo Emerson Derrick Jensen George Bernard Shaw Simon Critchley Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Matthias Schoenaerts John Irving Edith Sitwell Malorie Blackman Tony Campolo Anatole Broyard Christopher Morley Norman Grubb Patrick Wolf
2.
Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.
Jesse Lacey

3.
To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.
Kim Deal

4.
Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.
Robert Monroe

5.
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
Derrick Jensen

6.
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
Mark Nepo

7.
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
Stephen Levine

8.
Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
Michael Gungor

9.
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
Richard Rorty

10.
Music is part of being human.
Oliver Sacks

11.
Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

12.
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
Carol Ann Duffy

13.
Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
Rich Mullins

14.
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick Hornby

15.
Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses
Norman Grubb

16.
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
Henri Nouwen

17.
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
Lana Del Rey

18.
Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.
Andrew Keen

19.
The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
David Coverdale

20.
Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.
Chris Colfer

21.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.
Pierce Brosnan

22.
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
Bertolt Brecht

23.
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
Simon Sinek

24.
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
Ernest Cline

25.
... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]
Anne Lamott

26.
Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.
Chelsea Handler

27.
Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
Tom Spanbauer

28.
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
Kurt Vonnegut

29.
Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
A.A. Attanasio

30.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Dionne Warwick

31.
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
Bjorn Ulvaeus

32.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.
Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.
Graham Harvey

34.
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone
Nick Hornby

35.
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
Anatole Broyard

36.
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
Christopher Morley

37.
It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.
Philip Kitcher

38.
Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

39.
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

40.
Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.
Tommy Chong

41.
Part of being human is having a sense of humor.
Patrick Wolf

42.
If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.
Henry Cavill

43.
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.
John Irving

44.
There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.
Terry Pratchett

45.
Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.
Peter F. Hamilton

46.
Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.
Dominic Monaghan

47.
That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
Sally Ride

48.
Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.
Matthias Schoenaerts

49.
Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
Trent Reznor

50.
I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.
Jack Nicholson