“If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.” IfsKnowsFeelsHumansWholeHumanityDestinyDevelopmentEnvironmentalPermitUnitsUnbroken Author:Friedrich Frobel
“Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.” GivingHumansHumorChangedPerspectiveBearsLaughterSightPermitGraciousPompousGood HumorHumor And Laughter Author:Joan D. Chittister
“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.” HumansLongLawIndividualHuman BeingsViewsSawsSubjectsExpressionPermitCharter Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs
“An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.” WayHumansMomentsConditionsPoetOccasionsPermitHuman ConditionCatalystHaulNuggets Author:Diane Ackerman
“It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.” HumansTwoReasonEnoughMightMovingClassPrinciplesEvolutionSelfishPermitCooperatives Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.” KnowsHumansReligionAttitudeDestroyedPermit Book:The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness Source: The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness