#human

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?" Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#feelings #human-nature #hurt #insecure #parting

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#nature

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human. ↗

— Jacob D. Lochner

#inspirational #inspirational

You really think the world will ever know peace? Is that how you see the world" Malacey asked softly "That's how the world can be seen" his friend replied with a smile. ↗

— Obengbia Leyony

#humanity #inspirational #love #peace #war

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#humanity #humanity-complexity #lying #change

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows. ↗

— Cassandra Duffy

#humanism #iconoclast #inspirational #inspirational

Na, we are not sincere about anything; we are serious about everything because deep down, we are afraid to loose something we don't know about. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#fear #human-dilemma #inspiration #unknown #inspirational

he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them consideralbe money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign. ↗

— Mark Twain

#money