#human

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#ignorance #age

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#deeply #gardens #heart #how #human

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#beginning #built #faith #flourish #foundation

One thought I think every person eventually thinks is, “Holy shit, I’m going to die!” Sorry, I just turned thirty yesterday, so my mortality is on my mind.
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— Jarod Kintz

#anguish #birthday #death #die #human

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#housing-projects #human-regression #objectivism #society #age

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #age

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#first #founder #human #hurled #instead

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#connection #culture #discrimination #envy #humanity

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#empathy #helping #human-nature #life-lesson #life-lessons

The victory of humanity over man. Humanity had conquered the inhuman. And by what means? in what way? how had it overcome the giant of anger and hatred? What arms had it used? what engine of war? The cradle. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#anger