Quotes and sayings about tag  humanity

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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• Love

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

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• Success

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

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• Life

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

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• Love

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

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• Humor

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

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• Life

Friends are the family you choose.

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• Love

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.

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• Life

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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• Life

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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• Happiness

I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

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• Love

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

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• Humor

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

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• Inspirational

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

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• Inspirational

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

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• Life

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

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• Love

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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• Happiness

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

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• Life

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

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• Relationships

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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• Wisdom

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

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• Love

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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• Wisdom

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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• Inspirational

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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• Love

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

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• Love