Humanness Quotes - Page 2

• You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

  Jeanette Winter

  Winning, Play, Literature

  "The Passion". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1987.

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• The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

  Mark Coleman

  Essence, Folly, Seeing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fun, Winning, Humanness Is

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.73, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hurt, Taken, Compassion

  "Ignore the Young, Forget the Old" by Tavis Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Compassion, Profile, Institutions

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• Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Humanness Is, Challenges

  "Tribute To Miles". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

  Marilyn French

  Humanness Is, Inferiority, Lists

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• However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Humanness Is, Intellectual

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• I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Humanness Is, Tests, I've Learned

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• Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.

  John Zerzan

  Everyday, Glimpse, Culture

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• When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Children, Choices, Soul

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• Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Unique, People

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• Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Mean

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• Language was invented to ask questions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humanness Is, Language, Asks

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.

  Patrick Fabian

  Forgiving, Attention, Littles

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, patrickfabian.com.

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• Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Two, Feelings, Unity

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• We're being asked to bring our humanness along in holding that love and compassion for ourselves as we make our way through this energetic time of transformation.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Compassion, Way, Transformation

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

  Rajneesh

  Blessing, Ordinary, Different

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• This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Lying, Heart, Self Worth

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.182, Random House

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• If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Our World, Essence

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you are awakened to being a being, even though you're not yet being it, the purpose of you being in a body fundamentally shifts. In that shift, you know within that you are not first any longer about your humanness. Your humanness is included and it's no longer fundamental, altering your sense of reality.

  John de Ruiter

  Reality, Humanness Is, Purpose

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• Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Simple, Law

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• There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cozy

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Compassion, Humanness Is

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• For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Jesus, Disappointment

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