Best inspiring & human-beings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.”

Feels Humans Suffering Humanity Human Beings Inspiring Creativity Gay Sick Nervous

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.”

Humans Littles Would Be Bits Human Beings Inspiring Creative Tears Easier Right Now Directors Pops

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

Men Humans Said Human Beings Inspiring Female Males Defined Behave

Book:Nature of the second sex

Source: Nature of the second sex

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

“The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.”

People Love Humans May Stills Happiness Success Fear Human Beings Inspiring Struggle Changed Perseverance Looking For Love African American Love

Author:Halle Berry

“The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.”

Humans Moments Body Human Beings Inspiring Sitting Temples That Moment Reverence Bondage Human Body Human Bondage

Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Source: Jane Eyre

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”

“True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”

Humans Eye Women Human Beings Inspiring Moral Principles Color Hair Who You Are Related Compass Inner Beauty True Beauty Moral Compass

Book:Seriously ... I'm Kidding

Source: Seriously ... I'm Kidding

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

“Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.”

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Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.”

Humans Character Can Do Human Beings Inspiring Character Building Good Character Breathtaking Building Character Personality Flaws Best Character

Book:The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...

Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...

“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”

“I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.”

Knows Needs Humans Long Matter Human Beings Inspiring Normal Strive Not Sure I've Learned Disability Autism Autistic Striving For Happiness

Book:The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism

Source: The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism

“I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.”

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