#hum

Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#humor #family

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. ↗

— Al Franken

#being #being human #fatal #hard #hard way

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#being human #challenging #expression #human #life

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#breakthrough #come #could #egypt #firmly

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. ↗

— Max Frisch

#destiny #either #humbug #i #i believe

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. ↗

— Bill Frist

#clean #clean water #confronts #cooperation #currency

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#biologically #creates #fixed #given #human

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. ↗

— Betty Ford

#freedom #human #human freedom #never #search

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#existence #humans #important #life #quality