Humans Quotes
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"The marks humans leave are too often scars."
"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."
"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
"If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human."
"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."
"People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring."
"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."
"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it."
"Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead."
"By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh."
"Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."
"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."
"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."
"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."
"Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."
"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."
"It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion."
"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."
"So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations."
"I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy."
"Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems."
"Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment."
"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."
"ONE BUT MANYOne God, many faces.One family, many races.One truth, many paths.One heart, many complexions.One light, many reflections.One world, many imperfections.ONE.We are all one,But many."
"People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days."
"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."
"Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love."
"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."
"Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none."
"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."
"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."
"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."
"No ideology is worth a Human life."
"Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who'are crying for the place where you are today"
"All my problems bow before my stubbornness."
"Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals."
"If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp."
"The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly."
"When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry."
"Resources are hired to give results, not reasons."
"We can learn a lot from animals, if we're prepared to accept that they may just know more about life than what we do."
"Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals."
"Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do."
"How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows"
"God's dream is interwoven into reality by humans."
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