#humanity

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever? ↗

— Jean Thompson

#destiny #heart #humanity #identity #learning

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, "All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#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

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#farce #human-race #humanity #death

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#desperation #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #grief #hopelessness

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes. ↗

— Daniel H. Wilson

#human #humanity #robot #communication

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is in their capacity to escalate. ↗

— Marcus Zusak

#destruction #humanity #serious #truth #death