#humanit

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 had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to carry the belief with me to my grave. ↗

— Charlotte Rogan

#humanity #death

Women are people too". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#humanity-and-society #women-and-men #men

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#humanity #men

One word can change your life forever. I love you I hate you Think about it ↗

— Alan Macmillan Orr

#inspirational #mind #philosophy #change

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#change

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#humanity #soldier #war #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inspirational #life #change

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#civilization #growth #human-condition #humanity #rebellion