58 quotes
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition”
— Octavio Paz
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
— Elie Wiesel
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
— Desmond Tutu
“The essence of being human is in extending compassion to those who suffer most”
— Aristotle
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
— William Shakespeare
“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street.”
— Walt Whitman
“Our human compassion binds us to one another not in pity but as human beings”
— Nelson Mandela
“To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.”
— Joseph Addison
“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.”
— Unknown
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
— Christopher Morley
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done.”
— Bryan Stevenson
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made”
— Immanuel Kant
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together”
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity.”
— Petrarch
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.”
— Wangari Maathai
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.”
“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
“What we dont need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human”
— Brene Brown
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
— Mark Twain
“You must not lose faith in humanity for humanity is an ocean and faith sees the depths beneath the surface”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
— Seneca
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
— Maya Angelou
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
— William Blake
“You must not lose faith in humanity for humanity is an ocean and compassion is its deepest current”
“At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst”
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us.”
“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”
— Lord Byron
“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.”
— Carl Jung
“You treat a disease you win you lose. You treat a person I guarantee you win no matter what the outcome.”
— Patch Adams
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings we pay ourselves the highest tribute”
— Thurgood Marshall
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness”
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion”
— Thomas Paine
“An animal has its being in its world but the human being stands in the world”
— Martin Buber
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
— William Ewart Gladstone
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
— Carl Sagan
“If you feel pain you are alive and if you feel the pain of others you are a human being practicing compassion”
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through compassion”
“Everyone thinks of changing humanity but nobody thinks of changing himself first toward peace.”
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together through kindness”
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being”
— Robert Henri
“Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
— Oliver Sacks
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