#humanit

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended ↗

— Stephen King

#love #love

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#imperfection #love #love

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! ↗

— Walter Alexander Raleigh

#humanity #misanthropy #society #love

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#islam #kindness #love #peace #religion

Turn back to humanity – to the world – to love! Become gardeners – whatever you want! – become nothing! – and the whole of space will be free for you. ↗

— Alfred Wolfenstein

#life #love

The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a particular story is truth or fiction. This is way out of balance. It invades the privacy of men and women who didn’t give up being human when they became famous, and it negates the meaning inherent in our own lives. (300) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#compassion #fame #gossip #humanity #privacy

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises? ↗

— William Wilberforce

#perspective #understanding #men

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature. ↗

— Hayden Thorne

#philosophy #nature

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#glory #humanity #loyalty #nations #nature

We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#humanity #humankind #nature