Best humans & essentials Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.”

Humans Emotion Quality Development Essentials Shame Guilt Noble Civilized Melancholy Elegant Refined Maintenance Human Potential Civilized Society Shame And Guilt

Author:Willard Gaylin

“It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.”

Thinking Mind Humans Evil Easy Race Moral Issues Essentials Disappear Cease Opposition Dissent Invigorating Moral Issues Honing

Author:Jill Tweedie

“It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.”

Source: Advice from a Failure

“The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.”

World Humans Culture Differences Common Essentials Dignity Peaceful Outlook Appreciated Human Dignity Peaceful World Personal Dignity

Author:J. William Fulbright

“A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.”

Men Humans Humanity Force Human Nature Honor Essentials Dignity Pity Helpless

Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

Humans Existence Worry Conditions Essentials Anxiety Preserves Tension Boredom Human Condition Sensitivity Confrontation Human Existence Anxiety And Worry

Author:Rollo May

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

Should Humans May Important Reason Individual Force Difficult Growth Principles Depends Civilization Prove Essentials Tasks Limitation Bows Preservation Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.”

Thinking Trying Humans Kind Sex Existence Essentials Bird Males Luxury Justify Desperation Feathers

Author:Orson Welles

“They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.”

Humans May Children Evil Human Beings Steps Circumstances Essentials Goodness Reactions Fairness Associates Decency Child Of God Step Up Great Faith

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.”

Humans Heart Women Ability Break Essentials Contradiction Loved Ones Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Amy Dickinson

“We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.”

Humans Stories Motivational Born Powerful Land Changed Strange Activity Essentials Stranger Transmission Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Richard Halliburton

“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.”

Way Humans Seems Realizing Powerful Emotion Personality Essentials Despair Ambition Driven Components Human Personality Mysterious Benedict Society Powerful Emotions

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.”

Writing Mind Humans May Has Beens Stories Seems Film Motivation Principles Novel Products Essentials Raises Series Contact Aliens Complexity Human Mind Fifth Ambiguity Delayed Disregarded

Author:James Gunn

“Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.”

Humans Choices Liberty Essentials Dignity Components Human Dignity

Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl

“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.”

“For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.”

Humans Human Beings Ability Essentials Dignity Crucial Being Free

Author:Izzeldin Abuelaish

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