#human

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

There is this certain rawness of soul that puts the polished ones on edge. Some of us just step out and the sunlight illuminates our bones, nerves, veins, cells! And that's just it, we're just like that! Then the others are tinted, polished, honed and well-contemplated; when they see you walk in and they can see all of your bones, even the tiniest ones, illuminated and outlined by the sunlight, it makes them feel shaded-in, it makes them feel hidden, it makes them turn their faces away. The way you bleed yourself all over the lines just makes it too uncomfortable for them, I guess. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humans #inspirational-quotes #people #spiritual #spirituality

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#forgiveness #forgiving #humanity #forgiveness

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#humanity #inspirational #philosophy #sprituality #inspirational

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#rights #social #revolution

The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#love #love

There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love. ↗

— Jessica Fortunato

#enemies #hate #human #immortal #love

While there is Ego, you will never be one with the universe... Or love your fellow man. ↗

— Solange nicole

#humanity #life-lessons #love #universe #love

He leaned down and kissed my forehead. The soft melody of his lips was calming. I closed my eyes. I could smell his human skin, his human breath, his human hair, and for the first time, I would give anything to be human too. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#human #love #sharden #speer #love