“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Do the dead find peace beyond the rattle of the world? What peace is there for us whose best love cannot return them even for a day?”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.”— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com
“To feel is to hurt. To hurt is to care. To care is to share. To share is to grow. To grow is to love. And to love is to be human.”— Stephanie Anne, instagram.com
“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights”— Desmond Tutu, bbc.com
“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”— Desmond Tutu, en.wikiquote.org
“We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.”— Adam Savage, graduationwisdom.com
“We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.”— Pierre Trudeau, en.wikiquote.org
“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.”— Pierre Trudeau, en.wikiquote.org
“Do not be afraid. For you were made to love as your heart was made to beat.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com
“It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.”— Akira Kurosawa, imdb.com
“Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people”— Akira Kurosawa, amazon.com
“One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com