“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.” WritingBelieveHumansDiesLiteratureI BelieveHuman BeingsTeachPracticeTransformationEncounters Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?” IfsHumansAgeSchoolSpiritualHuman BeingsPracticeCasesStudyBuddhismBirthEnlightenmentPossessionDharmaSpiritual PracticeEsoteric Author:Dogen
“Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings.” NeedsHumansMeanDifferentBeautifulValuesHuman BeingsPracticeShareCircumstancesFellowsDemocraticReach OutSolidarityFreedom Of ThoughtHuman NeedsBeautiful Words Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift from God and the lives of those entrusted to his care as the true blessings they are. A culture that affirms life will not practice contraception nor will it murder its progeny.” HumansEndsCareAmericaCultureHuman BeingsPracticeBlessingAppreciateMurderFinalsAbortionGift From GodContraceptionProgeny Author:Judie Brown
“At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.” PeopleIfsWantShouldHumansKindSaidBeliefHuman BeingsPracticeAtheismParticularWelcomeInsanityCompassionateBelief In GodIrrationality Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.” HumansRealizingHuman BeingsPracticeTeachingNormalPatientScaredUncomfortableAnxious Author:Reb Anderson
“I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.” NeedsHumansMayTwoSoulPhilosophyHuman BeingsEmotionPracticeYour SoulStoic Author:Daphne Guinness
“As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.” MenHumansLongIdeasHuman BeingsAbilityPracticeBrotherhoodInabilityBeing There Author:Sydney J. Harris
“Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.” PeopleWayHumansFactsHuman BeingsPracticeOne ThingHuman NatureBisexual Author:Gore Vidal
“God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.” HumansReasonHuman BeingsExistencePracticeConversationIslamAtheistIntellectPracticalsImmigrationRacistAfterlifeCultRationalityImpossibilityXenophobiaUneducatedIrrationalityAppraisalRamblingGod Is GreatRowdyBackwoods Author:Sam Harris
“It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.” HumansSexImaginationHuman BeingsPracticeActivityImportanceSignificantFancyApplicationDeliberateHuman ActivityThesis Author:John Norman