“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.” YearsHumansKindPastEnergyHuman BeingsMillionsEnvironmentHappenedRocksCenturyOceanClimate ChangeScalesExperimentsAtmosphereCarbonLarge Scale Author:Roger Revelle
“I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenHumansKindI CanFeelingsPastTurnsHuman BeingsKnow HowCrazyNormalSensitiveCrazy Man Author:Jim Carrey
“What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.” KnowsGivingHumansWellsLooksStoriesPastIndividualHuman BeingsCommonMillionsKnow HowLocksMiraculousGod Knows Book:Elizabeth Costello Source: Elizabeth Costello
“Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansActionPastCausesStuffTermHuman BeingsHalfBecomingDemandConflictCapableSimplicityForgottenBeing TrueObsessedTemptedSneakRazorsInsistingOld StuffOccam's Razor Author:Richard Russo
“I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayHumansHas BeensKidsPastWishHuman BeingsStruggleHappenedThis WorldShameEmbarrassedInjuredWish YouMy Past Author:Traci Lords
“The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.” HumansPastFoundHuman BeingsTeachingEssencePast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Huineng
“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.” ThinkingWorldYearsHumansTwoPlayFeelingsPastJoyHouseHuman BeingsWonderAwarenessEssentialsIncrediblesPianoEach DayDaily LifeRoutineEightyPreludeBenedictionWonder Of LifeFugueRediscovery Author:Pablo Casals
“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!” IfsWantHumansStillsRealShowsLightPastHuman BeingsCitiesStreetsWallStandingCirclesEmptinessDusk Book:Old Wine: A Novel Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.” WayHumansStatesPastNationsInterestHuman BeingsHistoryDangerHealthyNormalGloryConstitutionObsessionPreoccupationMorbidOvershadowing Author:C. V. Wedgwood
“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.” HumansLittlesPastGoalHuman BeingsAbilityAttentionFutureMindfulnessConcentrationOrientation Author:Ian Gawler
“For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.” HumansPastHuman BeingsTransformationOriginalsBeing ThereIntegrated Book:Essays in feminism Source: Essays in feminism