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“We humans like to believe that we are consistent and mature, and that we have reasonable control over our lives. We make decisions based on rational considerations, on what will benefit us the most. We have free will. We know who we are, more or less. But in one particular aspect of life these self-opinions are all easily shattered - when we fall in love.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.”
Source: Cosmos
“We humans lost our freedom the first time we hung a badge on a machine.”
Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
“We humans love telling each other stories. . . we've done just that in caves, and in amphitheaters, and in the Globe, and in kitchens around campfires, and in the trenches. Every culture, every country, every type pf person in the world tell stories. They've been whispered and sung and written down on scraps of paper and they always, always been an indelible part of our very humanity.”
Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“We humans may not be powerful or magical," Baba added, holding me close. "But the stories we pass on to our children can be.”
Source: The Serpent's Secret
“We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness.”
“We humans only exist in this world, because of our intelligence.”
“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.”
“We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
“We humans shall always have reasons to fight with each other, but above them all there is even higher reason that binds us together and that is the reason of humanity.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.”
“We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!”
“We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.”
Source: The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin
“We humans still hunt for the outside-successes, "my job, my title, my house, my car, my boat, my body, my family, my mate..." and all of this is precious. I want it, too! But, we go over board with it. Some dreams just seem to run from us ([...]it's because we are no [vibrational] match [to these dreams] yet)... and we feel like a failure. [...]
THE JOY IS IN THE JOURNEY. There is joy to own, while we "hunt"! There is fun in missing the target, AGAIN. There is grandeur, in failing BIG. There is triumph to be had, when we "get" it! There is orgasmic joy, and awe and deep, deep deep satisfaction, when we are in Alignment.”
“We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.”
“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”
Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings
“We humans think we exist like this." Dadi gestured to the powders in their individual bowls. "Apart. Single. Beautiful and vivid, but alone." … She upended the two bowls into the center of the larger container, and the powders came together. They were mixed somewhat, but still in their separate piles for the most part - "Then" Dad continued, " with each interaction with another soul, we begin to change." She put a finger into the pile of powders and began to stir gently. The powders mixed more the longer she stirred, red mingling with orange, losing its distinct form. "We take pieces of them, and they take pieces of us. It's not bad. It's not good. It just is." By now the powders were completely mixed together, indistinguishable from each other. "Our best friends, the ones we love the most, are the ones who can hurt us the most. Because look." She pointed down to the powders. "We have had so many interactions, that we cannot separate their pieces from ours. And if we try, we would only be getting rid of ourselves.”
Source: From Twinkle, with Love
“We humans think we exist like this." Dadi gestured to the powders in their individual bowls. "Apart. Single. Beautiful and vivid, but alone." …
She upended the two bowls into the center of the larger container, and the powders came together. They were mixed somewhat, but still in their separate piles for the most part - "Then" Dadi continued, "with each interaction with another soul, we begin to change."
She put a finger into the pile of powders and began to stir gently. The powders mixed more the longer she stirred, red mingling with orange, losing its distinct form.
"We take pieces of them, and they take pieces of us. It's not bad. It's not good. It just is."
By now the powders were completely mixed together, indistinguishable from each other.
"Our best friends, the ones we love the most, are the ones who can hurt us the most. Because look." She pointed down to the powders.
"We have had so many interactions, that we cannot separate their pieces from ours. And if we try, we would only be getting rid of some of the best parts of ourselves.”
Source: From Twinkle, with Love
“We humans undergo two major growth spurts: one during infancy and another from eleven to twelve until fifteen or sixteen--pubescence. Between the two is a relatively quiescent growth period in which most of the body takes a rest from growing while the brain continues to mature. This period of life is general referred to as childhood or, sometimes, latency.”
“We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.”
“We humans, we become the stories that we tell ourselves. Our stories are never just stories. They are self-fulfilling prophecies.”
“We humans...we're all tangled balls of contradictions and potential. In my experience, if you want a hope of untangling yourself and finding the right path, you can't go around confusing it all with lies. I have no doubt you are capable of much more than you could ever imagine, young lady. But you won't get far without being honest about yourself and with others. Yes, the truth hurts, I can certainly attest to that. But lies leave far worse wounds, often invisible ones, and they will never heal unless you bring them out into the light. There are too many other, more worthy struggles in life you should commit your energies to instead of wasting them on lies.”
Source: Into the Real
“We humans were only here for a moment, the time it takes to blink in the flow of time experienced by the big lump we call Earth. In that enormously long moment, we continued to evolve and transform. I was here in a momentary scene of the never-ending kaleidoscope”
Source: Life Ceremony
“We humans who art on Earth
Humanity is special
Our kingdom has come
Do what we innately know to be right
On earth, because that's all there is
Share the bread we have
Try not to screw up
When others screw up, understand
We can't have everything that tempts us
Deliver ourselves from evil
Because this is it, the Earth,
The power to do right and the glory to come if we do is ours
Now and forever,
Hu-man.”
“We humans will be diminished if we cannot even protect the animals closest to us, who share almost all of our genes, and who differ from us only by degree.”
Source: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
“We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.”
“We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult to give them up....Because they were made at a time of life when we were utterly dependent on them, the love attachments of infancy have inordinate power over us, more than any other emotional investment.”
“We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.”
“We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.”
“We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.”
“We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool. -The Christmas List- p. 296”
“We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.”
“We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.”
“we hung there in the cold night for a while, awkwardly, the three of us, like the moons of a planet that had recently imploded”
Source: The Man Suit
“We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.”
Source: Uncommon Sense
“We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet”
“We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.”
Source: Black Beast
“We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.”
“We hunt as we've always done, part sport, part grocery shopping.”
Source: Down in the Valley
“We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”
Source: We Hunt the Flame
“We, hurt by ourselves, keen
to be hurters and keen
to be hurt back deep inside.
We, like weapons laid
beside anger asleep.”
“We hurt each other because we care about each other.”
“We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.”
Source: The Story of Us
“We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.”
Source: Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You
“We hurt no one when we encourage them to keep on keeping on, to not give up, to recognize how far they've come.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don't want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put out one's hands—like some dancer, in a trance, just put out one's hands—and touch all the people and tell them: I'm sorry. I love you. Thank you for your e-mail. Thank you for coming to see me. Thank you. But we can't. We can't. On the little life raft of Mark only one other person could fit. Just one! And so, thwarted, we inflict pain. That’s what we do. We do not keep each other company. We do not send each other cute text messages. Or, rather, when we do these things, we do them merely to postpone the moment when we'll push these people off, and beat forward, beat forward on our little raft, alone.”
Source: All the Sad Young Literary Men
“We hurt ourselves by being there for those who are never there for us.”
“We hurt ourselves more than we hurt other people by refusing to forgive.”
Source: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life