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“All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.”

“Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.”

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Author:Sakyong Mipham

“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.”

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Author:Cameron Diaz

“I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette