Being Human Quotes

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Music is part of being human.

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

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.

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.

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.

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

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

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.

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

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

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

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

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

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

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.