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“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Humans Self Practice Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

People Humans Hard Fall Practice Style Walking Mountain Appreciate Lifetime Manage Skulls Unstable

Author:Randall Munroe

“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.”

Writing Believe Humans Dies Literature I Believe Human Beings Teach Practice Transformation Encounters

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.”

Firsts Humans Kind Whole Use Action Individual Practice Society Conditions Habit Activity Resources Instance Perceive Affected Establishment Adjustment Human Activity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.”

Humans Heart Christian Christ Practice Mankind Shining Profession Admire Secure Good Work Human Heart Scorn Disparity Antipathy

Author:David Livingstone

“So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.”

“Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.”

Humans Facts Practice Conscious Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.”

People Humans Stories Social Practice Keys Skills Social Life

Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”

Humans Reason Natural Differences Animal Practice Bases Flesh Customs Feeding Equity

Author:George Cheyne

“The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.”

Men Firsts Humans Religious Practice Objects Activity Errors Casts Conceiving

Author:Laura Riding