#human

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ↗

— Mark Twain

#human #human race #laughter #race #really

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#everything #heaven #human #itself #joy

Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place. No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce- wind, seas- a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-uup nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world- no flower or stone- as a single hello from a human being. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#beauty

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human life #life #mirth #offered

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky. ↗

— Annette Bening

#always #beings #chaos #children #home

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. ↗

— Annette Bening

#about #acting #being #being famous #exploring

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#human #human knowledge #interpretation #knowledge #takes

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#could #hope #humanity #i #kind