#human

Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dogs #humanity #men #men

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. ↗

— George MacDonald

#humanity #inspirational #religion #theology #wonder

It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#future #humanity #inspiration #making-a-difference #motivational

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #men-and-women #love

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language. ↗

— Manu Joseph

#happiness #humanity-and-society #language #religion #unfortunate

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #human #inspirational #mere-christianity #religious

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#happiness #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#inspirational #politics #inspirational

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#inspirational #literature #motivational #trust #inspirational

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#destiny #happiness #humanism #inspirational #karma