“The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.” IfsHeartHumanityHealingAcceptingHealthIllnessAcceptedParadoxTraitsInabilityLoving YouLoving YourselfAccepting YourselfUnlovableInability To Love Book:A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom Source: A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom
“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.” IfsKnowsHumansSelfFeelingsActionJoyArtistHumanityHuman BeingsAcceptingDoubtConditionsCreationWillingCapacityGuiltNakedComplexityHuman ConditionExtravaganceSelf-doubt Book:Journal of a Solitude Source: Journal of a Solitude
“In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.” PeopleHumanitySocialAcceptingToo MuchFieldsEconomicsJournalismManagersSocial ScienceControllers Author:Noam Chomsky
“If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.” IfsHumanityFallAcceptingOur LivesHumilityReflectionFilledToleranceChainsLove LifeImperfectionDependence Author:Ernest Kurtz
“When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims -- national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument. I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.” MayWarWholeHumanityEvilIndividualNationsAcceptingObjectsCivilizationMetsArgumentUltimateAimAgreeIndependenceImpactWorthyTerrorismTerroristJustifyObjectionsIdealist Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I really like when critics reveal their subjectivity and their humanity. I prefer it when people say nice things, but if they say not-nice things or things that are critical, I'm open to it and I accept it. I mean, I have to live with it. But I do think there's a dishonesty in not acknowledging that you're a person with an opinion. I think it's almost like a power grab.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanPersonsHumanityAcceptingOpinionNiceCriticsCriticalDishonestyNice ThingsSubjectivity Author:Charlie Kaufman
“The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.” HumansPersonsHumanitySexAcceptingWorstBecomingBedDignitySellsSellingAgreementObligedProstitutionHuman Dignity Author:Kate Millett
“Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.” AbleHumanityEasyDifferencesCommonAcceptingPerspectiveIgnorantIsolationCommon HumanityShared Experiences Author:Linda Simon
“Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about... The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.” ThinkingMeanSoulMatterHumanitySidesAnimalHealingAcceptingDivineEssenceFeminineTotalityEmbodimentDivine Healing Author:Marion Woodman
“I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.” HumanityAcceptingEmbraceFacets Author:Ariel Pink
“Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.” ShouldSeemsHumanityNaturalAcceptingImpossibleConfusionOrganizedDisorderHabitualNatural Things Author:Bertolt Brecht
“I find it difficult to accept that it is the will of God that humanity should degrade, deface, desolate, and ultimately perhaps destroy His Creation on Earth. Yet this is the course on which we are embarked.” ShouldEarthHumanityCoursesDifficultAcceptingCreationEnvironmentalGods WillStewardshipDegradeDesolate Author:Russell E. Train
“We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.” MeanCountryProblemHumanityNationsAcceptingIdeologySufficient Book:Kindness, Clarity, and Insight Source: Kindness, Clarity, and Insight
“'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.” HeartHomeRealityPainHumanityCommonAcceptingJourneyAcceptanceWelcomeWho We AreGoing HomeCommon Humanity Author:Jean Vanier
“The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.” HumansPhilosophyBodyLife IsHumanityHuman BeingsAnimalAcceptingMoralLife PhilosophyBecomingMachinesMaterialismInherentPerilConvenienceImplicationsDisadvantagesDisruptive Author:Aldous Huxley
“I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.” IfsWorldBelieveStillsRealityWould BeHumanityLeftI BelieveAcceptingVisibleIslamicCan NotObligedIslamic Society Author:Jermaine Jackson