#human

The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#death #human-mind #death

The human race is governed by its imagination. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#human #human race #imagination #race

Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read. ↗

— Lee Siegel

#literature #art

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgiveness #hate #human #humanism #humanity

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#causes #children #getting #hollywood #humanitarian

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. ↗

— David Gemmell

#ignorance #truth #men

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#human-rights #life #pro-choice #pro-life #life

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better ↗

— Ron Rash

#humans #love #vulnerable #love

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth. ↗

— Toba Beta

#human #life #perception #tongue #truth

Sin embargo, conocí a muchos internados que supieron ser fieles a su dignidad humana hasta el mismo fin. Los nazis lograron degradarlos físicamente, pero no fueron capaces de rebajarlos moralmente. Gracias a estos pocos, no he perdido totalmente mi fe en la humanidad. Si en la misma jungla de Birkenau no todos fueron necesariamente inhumanos con sus hermanos hombres, indudablemente hay todavía esperanzas. Esta esperanza es la que me hace vivir. ↗

— Olga Lengyel

#holocaust #human-nature #inspirational #nazism #strength