#humanit

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#humanity #change

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #evolution #humanity #remove #change

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#hopelessness #humanity #peter-kreeft #age

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#compassion #courage #friendship #honor #humanity

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#choices #courage #destiny #faith #god

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #death

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#humanity #people #resilience #death

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #humanity #joy #purpose-of-life #life

Kyubey: You have no idea how much difficulty we go through trying to understand your human values. Presently there are six billion, eight hundred million of you, and you're increasing in number by a hundred every four minutes! What's the huge fuss over the death of each and every single creature? Madoka: If that's how you think of us, then yes, I see you are our enemy. ↗

— Magica Quartet

#human #humanity #humans #death

You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#time #world #death