A Quotes
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“All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.”
“All human beings, according to the conception of the Vedic seers, form the physical body of the Purusha, or Cosmic Person. The spiritual men form, as it were, his head, the warriors His arms, the merchants and traders His thighs and the labourers His feet. A healthy co-ordination among these four classes of people sustains the strength and the well-being of a society, as a harmony among the four principal physical parts insures the strength and well-being of a body. (p. 30)”
Source: Self-Knowledge: Atmabodha
“All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).”
Source: Games for Actors and Non-Actors
“All human beings are alone. No other person will completely feel like we do, think like we do, act like we do. Each of us is unique, and our aloneness is the other side of our uniqueness. The question is whether we let our aloneness become loneliness or whether we allow it to lead us into solitude. Loneliness is painful; solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community.
Letting our aloneness grow into solitude and not into loneliness is a lifelong struggle. It requires conscious choices about whom to be with, what to study, how to pray, and when we ask for counsel. But wise choices will help us to find the solitude where our hearts can grow in love.”
Source: Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
“All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.”
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
Source: Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
“All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.”
“All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.”
“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
“All human beings are connected. It’s like we’re all holding onto ropes that tie to each other. The bond is closer and stronger with people you’ve met; the longer or better you know someone, the easier it is to tune into their energy.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“All human beings are entrepreneurs.”
Source: The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
“All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.”
“All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.”
“All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it... And if you're successful, you can take more money. You can expand your capacity, reach next level of capacity, and so on.”
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
Source: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.”
“All human beings do wrong, but that's just what compels us to do good.”
“All human beings experience a life framed by the sky, wind, sun, stars, the earth, the great waters, and small streams. We possess nothing in life other than the landscape of our own minds. We cannot take anything from life. The universe is not something that we possess.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?”
“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.”
“All human beings have a default happiness setting, I had returned to mine.”
Source: Combat Skirts
“All human beings have a great agency for being part of a team.”
“All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.”
“All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.”
“All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.”
“All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.”
“All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.”
Source: Autobiography
“All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.”
“All human beings have magic in them. The secret is to know how to use this magic.”
Source: My life in astrology
“All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.”
“All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.”
“All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.”
Source: The White Witch
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
“All human beings hunger for appreciation.”
“All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.”
Source: The Four Loves
“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”
“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
“All human beings throughout the world are conditioned. It is an obvious and undeniable fact.
Yet, many of us are unaware of this fact of our conditioning. We are unaware of the ways in which our culture influences our minds and shapes our perception of reality. We do not realize that most of our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs are not really our own, but were simply inherited by our family and the society that we were raised in.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.”
“All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them”
“All human belief systems are inherently flawed.”
“All human culture is narcissistic: being based in the violent negation and exclusion of all other forms of animal life, it collapses into toxic self-love. It thus inevitably destroys its own object, too, i.e. itself, because genuine love requires an Other.”
“All human cultures, from hunter-gatherers to city slickers, share certain universals in the ways that we, as primates, interact with one another. This social destiny has a profound influence on the way that we relate to our dogs.”
Source: The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
“All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.”
Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
“All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering