#hum

By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#doing #human #life

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. ↗

— Henning Mankell

#politeness #life

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there! ↗

— Henry James

#human #life #monkeys #life

It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper. Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor. ↗

— Toba Beta

#humble #life #poor #prosper #prosperity

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life

I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person. ↗

— John Green

#life

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#about #beings #come #consciousness #effects

Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling ↗

— John Wyndham

#relationships #life

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humor #humor

Political life is best treated with antibiotics. ↗

— Colin Tegerdine

#life