Humanity Quotes - Page 21

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

In the age of arms, a super warhead might be the most powerful for its destructiveness. In the age of farms, an irrigation system is most powerful, for it feeds lives. But how do you define power and advancement in the age of social engineering? It is the one that mimics human the best, isn’t it? We don’t need a warhead when there has been a drought. We don’t point at our enemy with sprinklers. It is about evolving. (Douglas Parsley)

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

While there is Ego, you will never be one with the universe... Or love your fellow man.

When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth.

Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess

Money is made only from time well converted.

To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.

Mother nature has no involvement with the existence of a dystopia in our society. . A dystoopia comes into existence when human beings neglects the importance of maintaining a clean environment or cause destruction against a massive group of other people for an illogical/negative purpose.

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?

Be compassionate with all people.

Products are only gotten from a time well converted and that financial wealth is a product of time.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

If you have no product to show for your time, you are a time waster.

Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.

If you desire to be financially wealthy but don’t know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming.

We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our humanity.

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

What is your vision of ideal world?

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

~ "Harmony, and not peace, is the key element that can bring all nations of the world together. In science we cannot prove peace, but we can prove what harmony is!

If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you and everyone will be in need of your product.

Children are lovable and adorable.

History is the hallmark of humanity.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. Hotel service is embarrassing. Maids, waiters, bellhops, porters and so forth are the most embarrassing people in the world for they continually remind you of inequities which we accept as the proper thing. The sight of an ancient woman, gasping and wheezing as she drags a heavy pail of water down a hotel corridor to mop up the mess of some drunken overprivileged guest, is one that sickens and weighs upon the heart and withers it with shame for this world in which it is not only tolerated but regarded as proof positive that the wheels of Democracy are functioning as they should without interference from above or below. Nobody should have to clean up anybody else’s mess in this world. It is terribly bad for both parties, but probably worse for the one receiving the service.

To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.

Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day of your life is being converted to a product.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

Since time comes in seconds, in minutes and in hours, we must learn to convert time, else, it will slip away and can never be regained.

Everything diminishes and everything is destructible.

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Don’t just remain that accidental product.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world.

Pico Iyer: “And at some point, I thought, well, I’ve been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I’ve spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there’s this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

If you, therefore, must be numbered among the great, you too must run for your life.

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.

You can love completely without complete understanding.

Any time that is spent or wasted is a life wasted or spent.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

No mere man can do, what the Son of Man, the Saviour, did for all mankind.

I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.

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.

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.

Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

If you allow any minute of your time to pass without converting it into products, you will soon realize that you just wasted a part of your life.

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.

Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!

You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.