Real Human Quotes

• Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Compassion, Empathy

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Relationship, Real, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Real, Believe

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• While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, People, Evil

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• Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Real, Emotional, Fake

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.14, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

  Idries Shah

  Real, People, Right Time

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.82, Octagon Press Ltd

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• A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Responsibility

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes." And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.

  Rick Yancey

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• The term pre-embryo is useful in the political arena - where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo (now called pre-embryo) experimentation - as well as in the confines of a doctor's office, where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients. 'Don't worry,' a doctor might say, 'it's only pre-embryos that we're manipulating or freezing. They won't turn into real human embryos until after we've put them back into your body.'

  Lee M. Silver

  Real, Ivf, Doctors

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• "To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

  Leo Buscaglia

  Real, Action, Existentialist

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Real, Different

  "The Story of Art". Book by Ernst Gombrich, 1950.

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• Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Real, Heart

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• One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.

  John C. Wright

  Atheist, Regret, Real

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• God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Real, Godly

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• We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Real, World

  Ben Okri (2015). “The Famished Road”, p.571, Random House

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• [Pope Francis] comes to that conviction [of family crisis] as a pastor, not as Brad Wilcox or Charles Murray. So he wants to challenge the Church to find pastoral responses to that crisis that meet real human needs.

  George Weigel

  Real, Challenges, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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• As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Real, People, Want

  "Jake Gyllenhaal Finds an Off-Broadway Family". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. August 28, 2012.

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• If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

  Stephane Hessel

  Real, Men, People

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• I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

  Robert De Niro

  Real, Trying, Acting

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• This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

  John C. Reilly

  Summer, Drama, Real

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• You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

  Zadie Smith

  Real, Insightful, Different

  Zadie Smith (2005). “Martha and Hanwell”, Penguin Hardcover

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• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Real, Ghouls, Vampire

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• Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Writing, Men

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• Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Couple, Real

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