#hum

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#being #body #consciousness #filled #flesh

Yeah, Vi, unless Armageddon hit while i was fuckin' you this morning and we missed it, I'm thinkin' grocery stores still exist and they're all still stocked. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#end-of-the-world #funny #humor #funny

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. ↗

— Mark Twain

#funny #humour #review #funny

I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?' ↗

— David Miliband

#could #developing #going #goodness #here

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. ↗

— David Miliband

#end #history #human #human history #in the end

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. ↗

— David Millar

#any #cheaters #clean #human #human nature

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#against #ascendancy #battle #beings #ever

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#custom #despotism #everywhere #hindrance #human

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. ↗

— Alice Miller

#beatings #children #give #humiliated #humiliation

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ↗

— Alice Miller

#another #believe #childhood #difficult #does