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I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
What is a miracle? To some, it is an act of God.
To others, something amazing, extraordinary, or unexpected.
To me, Life is a miracle.
Everything that happens is a miracle.
There is no reason for me to exist as I do -
no reason for humanity, the universe, or the laws of Nature.
Energy, mass, gravity and the rest of existence
are all so improbable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I thank you God for this most amazing day,
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and for the blue dream of sky
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seeing my glass of life as mostly full
triggers an amazing cycle of transformation
Appreciation for the abundance of life incites gratitude -
which brings on that warm comfortable
feeling of joy and satisfaction with life.
Gratitude for abundance also creates increasing abundance.
Being truly grateful for the abundance that
is now in my life causes an ever greater abundance
to flow in my direction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead
Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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