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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#human-nature #psychology #social-commentary #nature

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. ↗

— Mark Twain

#nature

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#nature

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do? ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#holding-on #human-nature #nature

I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#human-nature #trust #nature

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#character #falliability #flaws #frailty #humanity

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

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The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#human-nature #humanity #quote #shortcomings #nature

You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day. It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep of our most distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tune with a tree than a keyboard. We are untitled, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be, the tadpole before the frog, the worm before the butterfly. We are, for a few brief moments, anything and everything we could be. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#nature

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. ↗

— Mark Twain

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