#humanit

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand. ↗

— Glenway Wescott

#humor #intention #wisdom #humor

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#humanity #love #mankind #art

A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#cooperation-and-attitude #enjoy #harvest #human #humanity

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#confusion #humanity #experience

Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cuevas, ciegos de miedo y de ira acabaron despedazándose entre sí. Los pocos que no sufrieron quebranto, como recuerdo de la simpleza de sus corazones, se transformaron en monos. ↗

— Popol Vuh

#death #dioses #fear #humanidad #humanity

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. ↗

— Terence

#concerns #humanity #i #i am #interest

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace. ↗

— Marjorie Watts

#c-a-dawson-scott #communities #humanity #individuals #international-relations

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#did #education #elders #fine #get

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#greatest #greatest threat #humanity #meeting #nuclear