A Quotes
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“All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.”
Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)
“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”
“All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.”
“All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.”
Source: Past and Present
“All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.”
“All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.”
“All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.”
“All human suffering concerns each human being.”
“All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.”
“All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.”
Source: Past and Present
“All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.”
“All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.”
Source: The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose
“All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.”
“All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.”
“All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.”
Source: The Montessori Method
“All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.”
“All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.”
“All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”
“All humanity is an aspect of Divinity, having its existence within the Omniconscious Unicity known as God.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”
“All humanity needs, is to be reminded that there has always existed a human consensus on all common human needs and desires (extremely long life in perfect health, abundance, well-being), and that now, transgressing the religious option, he has achieved the scientific option of working for all of them, and for much more.
His rationality, guided by both his ambition and inspiration, will do the rest.
WHATEVER RELIGION PROMISES, SCIENCE WILL DELIVER.”
Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“All humankind is born of the same inner goodness and fundamental ruthlessness as all the other creatures of nature. Man can never totally divorce himself from the beast that comprises part of his essential nature. It is not that our inner natures are entirely self-centered or completely filled with goodness. We can choose to make moral or immoral choices.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.”
“All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.”
“All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova”
“All humans are criminals. They all deceive to prevent one from sth better. Make a wish of mass destructions.”
“All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.”
“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
Source: The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
“All humans are equal, but not everyone has the mental capacity to decide what's best for harmony and progress of a people.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.”
“All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.”
“All humans are images of your own self.”
“All humans are images of your own self - their pain is your pain - their misery is your misery - their sorrows are your sorrows - so rise and be the hope, help and joy in their lives!”
Source: Fabric of Humanity
“All humans are important to God, so treat them all with love”
“All humans are my sisters and brothers. My life is meaningful only if the people of earth can find meaning for their own life in it. I have no side - I have no sect - I have no exclusive belief - for I am universal, I am omnipresent, I am omnipotent. Wherever there is a human who works through failures, there lives a Naskar - wherever there is a human who lends a caring hand to those in distress, there lives a Naskar. But it’s irrelevant whether I am called Naskar or Christ or Buddha or Shankara or Shams or anything else - what matters is that the force behind these names is one and the same - it's the force of love - it's the force of service - it's the force of sacrifice.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.”
“All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.”
“All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.”
“All humans are the same. It's pathetic when some denounce others for something the first also do. So mend your own business and stop intervening on others' business.”
“All humans are the same sex, except albinos.”
“All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.”
“All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.”
“All humans have five things in common. They want good health, they want economic opportunities ( to work), they want to love and be loved, (family and friendships) they want hope in their life, hope that tomorrow will be better than today, and they want to be part of something greater than themselves.”
“All humans have got equal wealth; it’s the way we convert that differs”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“All humans have got time in equal measures”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“All humans have time at their disposal irrespective of economic status, race or class”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.”
“All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.”
“All humans on earth are one. We descend from the same family of common ancestors. We are, in a quite literal sense, siblings, and like siblings we depend on each other's love and care and responsibility. We are interdependent not just in our families and communities, but in nations, and increasingly on a global scale - just as we are also interdependent with nature and the earth.”
Source: The self-criticism of science