Human Nature Quotes - Page 22

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

God is nature’s anti-dote to misery.

The conflicts between science and religion still remain in this day and age, because though most people understand what science means, they do not have a clue what religion means – and they do not even have a clue that they do not have a clue.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet de la Ménagère,” he began to cross-examine me about my methods of “collecting material.” Did I keep a notebook or a daily journal? Did I jot down thoughts and phrases in a cardindex? Did I systematically frequent the drawing-rooms of the rich and fashionable? Or did I, on the contrary, inhabit the Sussex downs? or spend my evenings looking for “copy” in East End gin-palaces? Did I think it was wise to frequent the company of intellectuals? Was it a good thing for a writer of novels to try to be well educated, or should he confine his reading exclusively to other novels? And so on. I did my best to reply to these questions — as non-committally, of course, as I could. And as the young man still looked rather disappointed, I volunteered a final piece of advice, gratuitously. “My young friend,” I said, “if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.” And with that I left him. I hope, for his own sake, that he took my advice.

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

Aberjhani

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

It is in the nature of the human mind to give in, and hold on, to the source of solace with all the might it can muster. Life is hard and any figure that tends to ease the subjective perception of that hardship, attains a high pedestal of utmost reverence in the realm of the individual mind. It all takes place at a molecular level in the human brain with the purpose of self-preservation.

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.

In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.

Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them.

It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Aberjhani

Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem,Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:The worth of all men by their end esteem,And then praise, or due reproach them yield.

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Aberjhani

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Aberjhani

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Aberjhani

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.

Ava

i would've done anything to make you happy.i think you knew that.i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.

Ava

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

Ava

i do not know how to live tepidly.i was never built to fit in.i live by my souland my soul is insane.

Ava

through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

Ava

it is hard not to count the hoursi have left with you.it is hard to be here now--knowing everything between uswill come to an end.

Ava

keep following your heart.it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

Ava

i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.

Ava

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--alone, waiting for the things that stay.

Ava

there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.

Ava

i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.

Ava

they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

Ava

i am not a jealous person,but when i am with you,the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time.

Ava

you need to be careful with me.i fall in loveand i fall in love forever.

Ava

let me tell you i'm in love with you. let me tell you that the first thing i do when i wake is think of you. let me be completely honest about this-- about what you mean to me.let me take it there without ruining everything.

Ava

i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart.

Ava

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.

Ava

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone. who could i love more than this peace?

Ava

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?

Ava

i want so much to touch youwhere my hands cannot.

Ava

some people are so deepyou fall into themand you never stop falling.

Ava

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman beingyou.

Ava

i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.

Ava

love yourself first,and you will always be in love.

Ava

Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption.

Kilroy J. Oldster

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

No matter how weird we all are, were still human.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Johann Baptist Metz

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.

One always has hope for human nature

Agatha Christie

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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