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“Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.”

Knows Humans Bits Human Beings Power Too Much Willpower

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.”

“When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

“Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”

Humans Culture Human Beings Animal Too Much Sick Civilized Memories Dreams Reflections

Author:Carl Jung

“too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.”

Humans Human Beings Too Much Security Safety Abhorrent

Book:Curtain

Source: Curtain

“Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.”

Humans Persons Human Beings Too Much Expenses Doings

Book:On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation

Source: On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation

“To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.”

Humans Force Human Beings Too Much I've Learned True Freedom

Author:Ethan Canin

“Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.”

Humans Hours Human Beings Too Much Hot Eight Nine Weather Splits Naps Hot Weather

Author:Tom Hodgkinson