“As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.” HumansMatterAbleHuman BeingsCircumstancesBlessingNormalExtremesCurse Author:Kevin Powers
“In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.” HumansStatesLostDevelopmentBlessingAppreciateTragedyRemainsCurrentsInabilityHuman DevelopmentUnclear Author:Shmuley Boteach
“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
“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.” MenShouldHumansMeanWholeUseChristianHeavenDarkLibertyTakenCircumstancesBlessingJudgmentArmyFoolishnessOur Founding FathersPrudentUs Founding Fathers Author:John Hancock
“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.” HumansHas BeensMightBlackLinesHuman BeingsLordClassMankindBrotherHabitBlessingLowsSkinsMarkNosesFlatsMight Have BeenDeprivedDisagreeablePriesthoodCainHuman FamilyMormonismTerminationUncouthBlack Skin Author:Brigham Young
“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.” PeopleMenGivingHumansKindStillsLife IsGivenCommonSubjectsFitBlessingGood ThingsAdmireHuman LifeGreekModerationObservingDeitiesSplendidLikelihoodFelicityVicissitudes Author:Solon
“Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.” PeopleHumansPurposeMillionsBlessingInstrumentsDeedsRationalIdiotEach DayGossipVillageVehicleThugVillage Idiots Book:Technics and Civilization Source: Technics and Civilization
“Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.” HumansHeartMayHas BeensMightWealthHuman BeingsCircumstancesBlessingCurseLatterOwnersAlasMight Have BeenSusceptibility Author:Arnold Bennett