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“Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.”

Humans Persons Real Suffering Felt Christ Imagination Human Beings Christianity Possibility Down And Possession Contact Midst My Imagination Christian Love Foreseen

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being”

Years Firsts Humans Wisdom Earth Felt Human Beings Cities Holy First Time Creator Islamic

Author:Malcolm X

“Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being... You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it.”

Should Firsts Humans Felt Interest Human Beings Interesting Paint Chairs

Author:Edvard Munch

“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.”

Humans Long Beautiful Felt Human Beings Long Time Singing Female Only Time

Author:Leontyne Price

“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.”

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference.”

Humans Made Hands Felt Differences Human Beings Answers Animal Brain Curiosity Size Respectable

Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”

Knows Men Humans Might Felt Human Beings Behinds Wall Ultimate Terror Isolation Insecurity Savages Signals Mist Another Man Choke Infancy Deep Within Hunted Caverns

Book:Second foundation

Source: Second foundation

“scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.”

Humans Has Beens Fighting Courses Felt Human Beings Violence Glory Bird Majority Satisfaction Enjoyed Fallen Beast Rifles

Book:Three Guineas (Annotated)

Source: Three Guineas (Annotated)

“Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.”

Years Humans Two Wanted Certain Felt Chance Human Beings Break Subjects Mines Decided Wake Up Entertainment Afternoon Bunnies

Author:Raven-Symone

“You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before. You hear all these things before you have a child, and they're all kind of true. It's just dealing with the overwhelming responsibility of like I'm the protector of this child that affected me the most.”

People Humans Kind Children Felt Human Beings Responsibility Responsible All Kinds Affected Overwhelming Protector

Author:Cobie Smulders

“I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].”

Humans Persons Mother Felt Growth Human Beings Becoming Becoming A Mother

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.”

Humans Felt Human Beings Impulse Mature Immature Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:George P. Baker