“Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“We never set out to hurt anyone. That's not the way we work. We don't take stupid risks. We're not greedy. But we're human.”— Jonathan Lisco, Janine "Smurf" Cody, Ellen Barkin, imdb.com
“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work- it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love them.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”— Robert James Waller, amazon.com
“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“For everybody and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it; yet I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human. You’d be a game show host.”— Daniel Waters, Veronica Sawyer, Winona Ryder, amazon.com
“The notion that we are all beholden to one another was terrifying, because I always felt insufficient to the task. But eventually a very simple thing dawned on me: I felt insufficient because I was repeatedly, through my choices and actions, failing to meet the minimum requirements of being a person…”— Brandy Jensen, theoutline.com
“There is no one more fascinating – no one more alive with the possibilities of life, no one more curious to learn from an adult or mentor who will spend some time with her. For energy…for spontaneity…for a sense of the full range of human emotion, there’s nothing like having a teenage girl in your l…”— Melinda Gates, gatesfoundation.org
“Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.”— Joanne Harris, amazon.com
“Baby take a look at my life Let's drop the top on my ride baby Yo nigga ain't hittin' that right Come roll with me for the night baby”— Fetty Wap, genius.com
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“That is the kind of evil practice which would cause the people to lose their dignity and honor. The people should demonstrate clearly and distinctly their capacity to forgive.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com