- “Humanity is the cancer of nature.” ― Dave Foreman
- “What good is immortality if nothing has been done to repair the fault lines in the human heart?” ― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem
- “Fear makes us human, yet takes away our humanity.” ― Neal Krishna
- “A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.” ― George Bernard Shaw
- “Birds change, we change, the world changes.” ― Richard Smyth, An Indifference of Birds
- “The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.” ― Flaubert Gustave
- “La mala salud causa pobreza y la pobreza contribuye a empeorar la salud” ― Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty
- “Maybe the weight of human choices gets too much beyond a few seconds, the way you can’t predict the weather too far in advance because there are too many things going on.”, FADE by Kailin Gow” ― Kailin Gow, Fade
- “God cares for everyone, but society is supposed to as well. We strive to live in a world that places tremendous, even infinite value on a single human life. We do not live in that society.” ― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
- “Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world’s sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. I guess I’d always known but never fully considered that being broken is what makes us human. We all have our reasons. Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.” ― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- “Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.” ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
- “If any man ever dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
- Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela
- Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann
- “P’haps because, out of all the life forms I’ve ever met, human beings are the … lifiest.’ The Doctor swung her legs off the table and leaned forward. ‘Here’s how it is. I don’t only care about the people of this planet. I happen to protect them.” ― Steve Cole, Doctor Who: Combat Magicks
- “I say to myself: “Who are you to measure infinite power?” ― Rousseau Jean-Jacques
- “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- “…the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there is love, there is always enough warmth for the human soul to thrive.” ― Marina Lewycka, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- “If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.” ― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- “The Lord says, ‘use your mind, speech, body and the soul (the relative self, the worldly self) for others. Then if you have to face any difficulties, come and tell me.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- Pray for your health first, then pray for humanity. Maxime Lagacé
- “I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “I’m always amazed at how ‘We The People’ come together to assist one another during Hurricane Season or any other calamity. The beauty of human compassion always staggers me and reminds me of how divine we truly are. However, It shouldn’t take a disaster, natural or otherwise, to remind us of our collective humanity.” ― Sabrina Newby
- “Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity” ― Chinonye J. Chidolue
- “It is always wise to retrace One’s steps before getting lost in translation. It is said that dark energy is a mysterious force that underwrites the universe. Now I Am certain of the following. Yes. Dark matter is Self. Yes. Dark energy is Self. Self turns itself into Light out of the darkness. So it is. Out of the darkness Oneself turns itself into Light. It must be said that Self prefers to associate itself with Light. Ultimately however, even the words ‘dark’ & ‘light’ are abstractions. Why? Here’s Why. All that is here is Self. Self is One. Oneself Is. Naturally there is no division. Division is as real as a mirage in the desert. Self perceives itself as itself. Diversity is Self-perceived for Companionship. Companionship being synonymous with Love. Perhaps Self could name the above Self-Interpretation the Eigen-Interpretation, better yet, the Wassermann-Interpretation for after all; it has dawned upon Self that Self itself is and that otherness is merely Self perceiving otherness not to be alone, to experience Companionship, to Love and Be Loved in return. As such the Age of Aquarius is Now otherwise known as Self. None of the above matters for all that matter’s Love. Love is the purpose of Life, there is no purpose but Love. So Love, let us Love.” ― Wald Wassermann
- “Biggest enemy of Humanity is Human themselves.” ― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
- “To be compassionate requires great strength of character. It is never weakness. The people who stand for compassion and love often do so at the risk of their own lives. They are the people we admire most who remain true to themselves at all costs and true to the highest principles of human decency in the face of unspeakable cruelty.” ― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
- “Spiritual practices in any tradition, including mindfulness in its many forms, are meant to help you live what is yours to live, not make you rise above it. These tools are meant to help you feel companioned inside your grief. They’re meant to give you a tiny bit of breathing room inside what is wholly unbearable. That’s not at all the same thing as making your pain go away.” ― Megan Devine, It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
- “It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.” ― Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America
- “En el aspecto social, la inclusión es el principio básico. Nuestro lema son los pobres primero y para los pobres los mejores instrumentos, los mejores maestros, las mejores infraestructuras. La cultura para los pobres no puede ser una pobre cultura. Debe ser grande, ambiciosa, refinada, avanzada, nada de sobras. Además, ellos multiplican su efecto, porque son enormemente agradecidos ante el esfuerzo. No es práctico incorporar a su vida esa faceta como si fuera un florero.” ― José Antonio Abreu