#hum

If you don't remove your hands immediately, I will render you unable to biologically maintain life. ↗

— Kaede Kouchi

#threats #life

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings? ↗

— Stephen King

#humanity #humanity-and-society #life #life

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula. ↗

— Joe Queenan

#books #essays #humor #life #reading

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#humanity #life #nature #nurture #philosophy

I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#gratitude #lawyer-jokes #humor

Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fire #fireballs #humanism #humanity #inspirational

To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity. ↗

— Brian Christian

#human-nature #intelligence

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer; for he recognizes the truth ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#life #truth #life

Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

#humility #respect #service #life

Dear Aunt Patty, Thank you for coming to be part of what definitely ranks in the top five worst days of my life. While your generosity is appreciated, I am returning this gift, as forced bachelorhood necessitates total abstinence from bamboo placemats and matching napkin rings in my daily life. Sincerely, Emory Too much? ↗

— Cary Attwell

#left-at-the-altar #wedding-presents #life