#human

How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#human-heart #thought #journalism

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#focus #god #humanity #mistakes #perfection

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#humanity #connection

We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#people #race-relations #separation

A bitter experience makes us a better person. ↗

— Saru Singhal

#experience #human-being #life #experience

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fulfillment #humankind #potential #marketing

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation. ↗

— L.A. Weatherly

#conversation

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#feminism #humanity #men #women #equality

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion