Quotes on “humanism”

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.