T Quotes
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“The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.”
Source: The Christian Science Journal
“The human situation, in general or in particular, is slightly worse (ignoring an occasional hiccup in the graph) at any given moment than at any preceding moment.”
“The human skeleton differs in many ways from those of the great apes, and some of the differences are in regions commonly afflicted bu acquired conditions.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“The human skeleton differs in many ways from those of the great apes, and some of the differences are in regions commonly afflicted by acquired conditions.”
Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach
“The human skin evolved in a natural electromagnetic radiation environment and is now in a very unnatural man-made one that is making many people sick.”
Source: Electrical Forensics
“The human smile derives from the nervous grin found in other primates. We employ it when there is a potential for conflict, something we are always worried about even under the friendliest circumstances. We bring flowers or a bottle of wine when we are invading other people’s home territory, and we greet each other by waving an open hand, a gesture thought to originate from showing that we carry no weapons. But the smile remains our main tool to improve the mood. Copying another’s smile makes everyone happier, or as Louis Armstrong sang: “When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.”
Source: Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
“The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.”
“The human soul develops up to the time of death.”
“The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.”
“The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.”
“The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
Source: William Shakespeare
“The human soul is a living paradox—neither a predetermined personality nor a completely open possibility. The point in this life is not simply to “become somebody,” but to become who we were each intended to be when we first entered this world. For each of us has the most to give and contributes most meaningfully when we become who we were intended to be from the beginning. That is the inside story and the hidden message that has been etched upon each soul.”
Source: The Genius Myth
“The human soul is a madhouse of the grotesque. If a soul were able to reveal itself truthfully, if its shame and modesty didn't run deeper than all its known and named ignominies, then it would be--as is said of truth--a well, but a sinister well full of murky echoes and inhabited by abhorrent creatures, slimy non-beings, lifeless slugs, the snot of subjectivity.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“The human soul is an abyss”
Source: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.”
“The human soul is like a butterfly it is evaluating trough different levels of metamorphosis or stack...”
“The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.”
Source: The Black Prince
“The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.”
Source: Sadhana
“the human soul is part of the great cosmic stream that flows through all creatures. It is a single force, one motion, but when a person is born into a physical body, when he comes into the world as an individual being, that soul has to separate from the rest, otherwise a person would not be able to live—the soul would drown in the One, and the person would go mad in just a few instants. That is why such a soul gets sealed, that is, seals are stamped upon it that will not let it mix with that unity but will allow it to operate in the finite, bounded world of matter.”
Source: The Books of Jacob
“The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.”
“The human soul is very much older than the human mind.”
“The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.”
“the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.”
“The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.”
“The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want.”
“The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.”
“The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.”
“The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.”
“The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.”
Source: Nature of the second sex
“The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.”
“The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.”
“The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival is even possible. Environmental catastrophe, including war, maybe pandemics, these are very serious issues and they can't be addressed within the current structure of institutions. That's almost given. There have to be real significant changes, and only really effective popular mass-based movements can introduce and carry forward such initiatives, as indeed did happen during the 1930s.”
“The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday”
Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
“The human species pretends it's so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn't lie to yourselves, you'd cut your own throats to end your misery.'
I am struck by the word species, by the idea that he thinks I am something entirely else, like an ant or a dog or a deer. I am not sure he's wrong, but I don't like the thought. 'I don't feel particularly miserable right now.' I can't show him I'm afraid.
His mouth curls. 'What happiness do you have? Rutting and breeding. You'd go mad if you accepted the truth of what you are. You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die some pointless and agonising death.'
I look him in the eye. 'And?”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life”
“The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.”
Source: Stars and Gods
“The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.”
“The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.”
“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”
“The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”
“The human sperm and the Olympic swimmer are the same. They may swim out their energies, but may not always bring home the egg and the medal.”
“The human spirit and self-esteem are compromised when you lay down your arms to the pressures of society in a rat race.”
Source: The Princess of a Whorehouse: The Story of a Swamp Lotus
“The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.”
“The human spirit can not be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream. -Mike Brown”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams: Inspirational Stories, Powerful Principles and Practical Techniques to Help You Make Your Dreams Come True