“We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.” IdeasHumanityHouseAttentionEnvironmentToo MuchOur LivesFieldsBuddhismSquaresOur Environment Author:Frederick Lenz
“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.” ArtFeelingsDreamPainTogetherJoyArtistHumanitySpeakWonderCreativityOur LivesMysteryCreationSorrowIllusionCapacityDelightConvictionPityAspirationSubtleSolidarityFellowshipInvincibleUnbornLatentCreating Beauty Book:The Portable Conrad Source: The Portable Conrad
“I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.” ThinkingTryingHumansHumanityAnswersOur LivesAccountsMake SenseScientific KnowledgeGreat Knowledge Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.” IfsHumanityFallAcceptingOur LivesHumilityReflectionFilledToleranceChainsLove LifeImperfectionDependence Author:Ernest Kurtz
“I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.” PeopleBelievePersonsArtImportantStoriesHumanityNextI BelieveOur LivesShareStorytellingComplement Author:Oprah Winfrey
“I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsBookHumanityPowerfulBehindsFourOur LivesAliveAchievementMythInterviewsTake MeFour Years Author:Kitty Kelley
“We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.” NeedsBelieveHumansKindStatesLife IsHumanityMoralOur LivesAliveJudgingDutyPersonalityObligationPrimariesPerformingMaintainingWorth LivingRenounceLife Is Worth LivingGood Moral Author:Jennifer Michael Hecht
“We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do.” MenWayHumansEnoughHumanityCan DoEffortQualityOur LivesRiskDemandProveLimitsBasesStunningClimbers Author:Walter Bonatti
“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.” ThinkingYearsHumansLittlesCharacterSongHumanityHouseBitsPerfectOur LivesLittle BitRelationRelateHuman RelationsNudge Author:Corey Taylor
“If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.” IfsLooksKindDifferentHumanityCultureOur LivesExplanationDifferent Cultures Author:Jane Goodall
“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.” HappensAbleHateHumanityTurnsChoicesTermDarknessOur LivesConsumed Author:Angelina Jolie
“He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.” HumanityPassionOur LivesGenerationsLaysFuture GenerationGoverning Author:Seneca the Younger
“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.” WorldChildrenStillsWarHumanityFallNextMorningOur LivesGoes OnHorrorWake UpFalling In LoveCrueltyUps & Downs Author:Paul Auster
“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.” MenMeanChildrenLongHas BeensHumanityParentVisionBreakPathOur LivesGrowingTenAuthorityTwentiesAgreeSacredGiantsJudgedQuestsCommandmentsFullnessMosesPilgrimGrowing Children Author:Sam Keen
“Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.” WayMatterActionRememberHumanityQualityOur LivesCircumstancesCapacityNo Matter WhatCurrentsBackgroundsGoldenThread Author:Robin Sharma
“Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?” WorldHardHumanityChoicesKnownOur LivesDoorsAspectPrisonIncludingScalesStaringParadiseMapsDictatorshipOur ThoughtsPonderingFascistsForksFork In The Road Author:David Icke
“The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.” StillsHumanitySpeakPrayerSilenceBreakOur LivesBecomingDisciplineHolyActivityDown AndNoiseContemplationStoppingSlow DownRemindingBreak ThroughSlowingGod's Presence Author:Jim Wallis
“Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingCountryDonePhilosophyInspirationHumanityOur LivesInspireDivineCitizensElementsInspiredClimbsSwimFeatsBe InspiredGood CitizenHimalayasWeightlifting Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.” HumanityOur LivesIdentitySourceWeightDivorcedVacuumsHavoc Author:David Kim