“I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.” ThinkingHumansHuman BeingsJourneyShareTaughtPrayingBirthLessonsBlessingApproachYogaRewardsFollowingInwardDomainBirth And DeathNever Stop LearningGreat RewardUseful Life Author:B.K.S. Iyengar
“The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.” IfsHumansKindShowsCan DoReligiousHuman BeingsGroupsAtheismNeededLessonsPrejudiceCampaignsPropagandaOppositionShow MeDisgusted Book:The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.” YearsHumansChildrenStillsCareDifficultSoundHuman BeingsTeachEffectsPlanetsLessonsResponsibleOur ChildrenDisasterWelfareBeing Responsible Author:Gloria Reuben
“The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.” MindFirstsHumansHeartEndsUseLife IsHuman BeingsSimpleChangedLessonsTasksCourtHuman LifeAffectedRuling Author:David Souter
“The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.” IfsHumansChoicesGivenSocialHuman BeingsMediaStrangeLessonsSocial Media Author:Walter Kirn
“I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.” ThinkingYearsHumansSometimesChristianHuman BeingsLessonsEqualConcern Author:Patti Smith