#uma

We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #library #life #experience

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#human-rights #politics #totalitarianism #freedom

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand. ↗

— Cecília Meireles

#human-nature #spirit #freedom

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

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#always #aspect #away #carried #cases

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ↗

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

#inspirational #mistakes #risk #school #design

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. ↗

— Eve Curie

#humanitarian #inspirational #peace #ww #death

A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR I am hunted by humans. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#humans #liesl #narrator #sad #stupid