#human

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#marriage #marriage

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational #self-control #inspirational

On an individual level, the human condition changed day by day, even hour by hour, and while you were soaking in self-pity over a misfortune, you might miss an opportunity for a redeeming triumph. And for every act of inhumanity, the species managed to committ a hundred acts of kindness; so if you were the type to brood, you would be more sensible if you dwelt on the remarkable goodwill with which most people treated others even in a society where the cultural elites routinely mocked virtue and celebrated brutality. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 5 ↗

— Dean Koontz

#change

Life is a constellation, the individual moments in our lives seem so pointless sometimes; but when you look at the whole picture, you can see that those little moments formed memories. ↗

— Alex Rogers

#inspiration #life #inspirational

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. ↗

— François Fénelon

#humans #nationalism #patriotism #war #men

What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off. ↗

— Sayo Masuda

#heart #humanity #inspiration #love #world

If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational. It shapes leaves. It rolls the waters of the earth. Man is the chief of this. All creations are his just inheritance. You don't know what you've got within you. A person either creates or he destroys. There is no neutrality. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#nature #nature-of-man #inspirational

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#humanity #nature-of-man #observation #men

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves. ↗

— Richard Adams

#evil #human-cruelty #men

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. ↗

— William Pickens

#human-rights #racism #truth #men