#humanity

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Common sense is the genius of humanity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humanity #kindness #perfection #buddhism

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. ↗

— David Gemmell

#ignorance #truth #men

Compassion is the chief law of human existence. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#humanity #law

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

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