“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.” BelieveHumansI BelieveWishHuman BeingsCelebrate Author:Kathy Najimy
“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.” IfsKnowsMindHumansIdeasWarSelfBodyDesireWishHuman BeingsInspireMaterialsHabitConflictNegativeUltimateFellowsStriveGreedSeekingPossessionYour BodyGods WillOccasionsMotiveSensibleCastingFinding PeaceNegative ThoughtsEliminatingInspire OthersMaterial PossessionsPeace WithinGlorificationSelf Glorification Author:Peace Pilgrim
“The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.” IfsWorldHumansIdeasWishHuman BeingsPerfectChristianityCasesSavedNonsenseSaviorA Perfect World Author:Frederick Lenz
“Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another, the closer they come to God.” WorldWayHumansDifferentWishHuman BeingsWalksImagineCirclesDifferent WaysImagine ThatRadius Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.” WorldWayTryingHumansEndsHardFeelingsPainWishHuman BeingsGriefGreaterStageFrontsCracksHuman ExperienceRise AboveComing To An EndStages Of GriefRise Above ItCelebrity Relationship Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansHardPainDesireI BelieveWishFeltHuman BeingsAchieveHard WorkRootsSaintPsychologicalTemptationMotiveAttachmentAspireSainthood Book:Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950 Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950
“Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.” WantHumansHelpingProblemWishHuman BeingsFashionSolveModestExpressiveParadoxical Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
“By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsBelieveHumansMeanWholeHandsDesireForceWishHuman BeingsMillionsParticularHabitEthicsAssumingDevotionBlockNationalismInsectsInseparableDesire For Power Author:George Orwell
“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
“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansMayYoungCultureIndividualLeftWishUnderstandingHuman BeingsSupportDependsHealthyDiversityCapableSickFundamentalsSignificantDivisionLeft AloneSkillfulPeace And HappinessSameness Author:Dalai Lama
“Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.” ShouldHumansChildrenStillsBookWishHuman BeingsSunWrittenAirMastersBabyTasteReflectionFruitIgnorantObservationPlasticToysBluntDullness Author:Margaret Fuller
“it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.” KnowsHumansDesireOrderWishChangeHuman BeingsPopularityMediocre Author:Marie Antoinette
“I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.” TryingHumansI CanMatterHardSeemsWishHuman BeingsAnswersPerfectFaultsWittyAttractiveCan't Change Author:Rebecca
“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.” FirstsHumansKindMeanEndsWishImaginationHuman BeingsIssuesCenturyPossibilityProduceBehaviorTwentiesDetermineEducationalHuman BehaviorControversialModifyingControversial IssuesEnds And Means Author:John Goodlad
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.” HumansSelfSufferingWishHuman BeingsConcernProfoundIllTortureSicknessTreatmentContemptMistrustDesolationWretchednessIndignityIll Treatment Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.” WorldHumansHas BeensSelfUseChoicesGivenWishHuman BeingsBrainStepsDestinyAwarenessKeysShapesCreaturesSelf AwarenessEvolveTrue Self Author:Deepak Chopra
“I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.” ThinkingWayHumansKindWishHuman BeingsConditionsAll KindsAffected Author:Judith Butler