#human

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love

Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand ↗

— Susan Nathan

#racism #experience

The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and peaceful disagreement. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #peace #religion #respect #experience

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself. So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#dating #existentialism #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #humanitarian

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#life-experience #experience

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #humanity #faith

Sometimes I want to be human for you. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#humanity #love #nick-ryves #family

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#force #human-spirt #relentless #faith

You remember all those phrases about how "these people" - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#any #around #asians #certainly #children

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters. ↗

— Bahá'u'lláh

#family