#human

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#dickens #had #humanity #me #never

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #funny

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#agreed #another #answer #beings #care

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even after they go... they're still here. They never really went anywhere. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humanity #inspirational-love #inspirational-relationships #the-human-experience #the-unforgotten-ones

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#activity #brain #far #human #human brain

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. ↗

— George Saunders

#connection #feel #human #left #might

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. ↗

— Pat Boone

#caring #democrats #figures #humane #liberal

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#greatest #human #human souls #look #makes

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant