#human

You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are, for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#nature

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#human-nature #nature

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#nature

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink. ↗

— Clay Griffith

#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid. ↗

— Ken Follett

#human-nature #sheep #nature

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#nature

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#nature

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large. ↗

— Mark Twain

#killing #nature

In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#live #love #myths #love