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"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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When a person doesn't have gratitude,
something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by
his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The 3 Rs that Plague Humanity:
Regret, Resentment, and Revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

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

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
- Daniel Libeskind

If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
- Robert Browning Hamilton

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune.
For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure
in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker

I am one of those who think like Nobel,
that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
- Marie Curie

It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who
listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity,
for they shall live forever.
Forever.
- Khalil Gibran

I think music in itself is healing.
It's an explosive expression of humanity.
It's something we are all touched by.
No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
- Billy Joel

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One way or another, we all have to find
what best fosters the flowering of our humanity
in this contemporary life,
and dedicate ourselves to that.
- Joseph Campbell

I see humanity now as one vast plant,
needing for its highest fulfillment only love,
the natural blessings of the great outdoors,
and intelligent crossing and selection.
- Luther Burbank

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program
winning the world chess championship.
Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- Richard Dawkins

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer,
but, my childhood was very good.
I am very grateful for my childhood,
because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
- Roberto Benigni

Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness,
or else forgiving another.
- Jean Paul

Soon silence will have passed into legend.
Man has turned his back on silence.
Day after day he invents machines and devices that
increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life,
contemplation, meditation.
- Jean Arp

My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Above all nations is humanity.
- Goldwin Smith

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured
only because they were told that their sufferings would
free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
- Arthur Henderson

I stopped caring so much about what people might think
if I sung about love and humanity.
- Wayne Coyne

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their
responsibility to humanity.
- Joseph Rotblat

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this
compliment at least to humanity,
as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it,
as the case will well let them.
- Laurence Sterne

No one makes a revolution by himself;
and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes
without quite knowing how,
because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
- George Sand

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent
in the scale of humanity.
- Francis Parkman

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to
comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
- Stanley Crouch

Porno is the unconsciousness of culture,
the libido of humanity.
- Masami Akita

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand,
have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your
all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
- Ralph Fiennes

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency;
to forgive them is cruelty.
- Maximilien Robespierre

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity,
the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.
They are right.
It is.
It is the American Dream.
- Archibald MacLeish

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members,
that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
- Theodor Adorno

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity,
and the other the individual lot of man.
- Alfred de Vigny

In the kind of world we have today, transformation
of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
- Stanislav Grof

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
- Marcus Garvey

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and
fatigued by the struggle with want,
to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
- Friedrich Schiller

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.
- Pierre Vergniaud

So long as you are ready to die for humanity,
the life of your country is immortal.
- Giuseppe Mazzini

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
- M. H. Abrams

For the larger interest of humanity,
Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.
- Jermaine Jackson

You have to open your mind.
I like the ability to express myself in a deep way.
It's the closest music to our humanity -
it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
- Sonny Terry

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my
deep feelings about humanity,
and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had,
had been recognized.
- Tom Glazer

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity,
the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream.
They are right.
It is the American Dream.
- Archibald MacLeish

Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity,
since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of
spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.
- Michael Servetus

Without humility there can be no humanity.
- John Buchan

The world is indebted for all triumphs
which have been gained by reason and humanity
over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
- Joseph Rotblat

I share the opinion of those of broader vision,
who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
- Frank B. Kellogg

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition
of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
- Henry Miller

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us.
Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

America is ready for intelligent talk.
I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.
- John Walsh

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin,
and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
- Lou Henry Hoover

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie