A Quotes
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“A huge, purple bell, with three tender flowerets in its heart, ensconced in a crown of twigs. A sunbeam fell on the purple flower and made it glow red. The whole thing looked like a tiny world in itself, a fantastic world of flower and fire, light and silence." -- Bougainvillea”
Source: Saints and Charlatans
“A huge smile spread across Jen's face."Ahh that was a good one." She turned back to the crowed and yelled again."Rewind. We're going to party like it's 2009, New Year’s Eve. If you're curious as to how awesome a party that was, please see me, Jacque or Sally. Sally's version will be much more accurate, and also free of any important inappropriate details." Before she could say anything else, a large hand wrapped around the microphone and pulled it from Jen's grasp. Decebel handed it to Jacque as he growled at his mate and pulled her away.All the while Jen was telling him exactly how much she didn't appreciate him getting all up in her kool aide. She finished by telling him that, once again, she was going to shove her foot where an ‘Exit Only’ sign should be.”
Source: Beyond the Veil
“A huge storm appearing on the horizon both scares and fascinates! When you are afraid, you want to escape; when you are fascinated, you want to run towards the storm! The storm both pushes and pulls you!”
“A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.”
Source: Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
“A human, a god, a son of God, a son of man, a god in the flesh, etc. I don't think Jesus can identify himself either.”
“A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.”
“A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”
“A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.”
“A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!”
Source: The dark side of Guy de Maupassant
“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
Source: The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People
“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.”
Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded
“A human being basically could not live alone. I had always thought of one’s soul as an imperfect creature; God had created it that way to allow the need to exist –the need to have relationships with other people in order to always run after the one obsession that had humanity seeking it on regular basis –perfection. Whether that relationship was between family members, friends, co-workers or even a romantic relationship, it was always people’s way to achieve flawlessness since they couldn’t accomplish it on their own.”
Source: Rosie
“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”
Source: Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985
“A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).”
“A human being born at one of Uranus's poles would be a middle-aged man at sunset and a very old man before it was time for a second sunrise.”
Source: The Relativity of Wrong
“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”
“A human being can never be broken”
“A human being can never really grieve their own death. Death is always something that happens to other people around them.”
Source: If Cats Disappeared from the World
“A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won't really make a difference. You can only absorb so much.”
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary for him to discover some element of pleasure, no matter how humble or on how low a level, in his environment if he is to go on living at all. In my case these insignificant birds with their subdued colourings have provided just sufficient distraction to keep me from total despair. Each day I find myself spending longer and longer at the window watching their flights, their quarrels, their mouse-quick flutterings, their miniature feuds and alliances. Curiously enough, it is only when I am standing in front of the window that I feel any sense of security. While I am watching the birds I believe that I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.”
Source: Asylum Piece
“A human being can only endure so much. Gary McDougall's life exceeds the limit.”
“A human being can only endure so much. This life exceeds the limit!”
Source: Don't Tell Me There Ain't No God
“A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.”
Source: How Did You Get This Number
“A human being can stand any amount of pain.”
“A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”
Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
“A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.”
Source: The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity
“A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”
Source: 10 Books in 1
“A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.”
“A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.”
“A human being has no natural rights of any nature.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
“A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.”
“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should work, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.”
“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”
Source: Frankenstein
“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.”
Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”
“A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.”
“A human being is a deciding being.”
“A human being is a king of murder.”
“A human being is a naturally political [animal].”
Source: Aristotle: Introductory Readings
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“A human being is a problem in search of a solution.”
Source: Plays of three decades
“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.”
“A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the "universe". He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.”