#hum

Books are humanity in print. ↗

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#despair #easiest #easiest thing #good #hope

I had a dream about you last night... you made a beard for yourself out of forty two bags of Twizzlers. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#certainly #easy #everything #going #humor

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#darkness #element #end #face #finite

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#effects #even #family #get #help

I'm totally human. ↗

— Serena Williams

#i #totally

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#because #brains #effort #explain #how

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#human #human language #language #matter #prevents

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. ↗