#uma

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#human-nature #impossibility #impossible #innate #richelle

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. ↗

— Émile Zola

#nature

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#people #nature

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#fighting #human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #unfairness

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around. ↗

— Jonas Eriksson

#philosophy #nature

There is a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime sentiments and most refined tenderness. ↗

— Diderot

#nature

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'--of importance only within four walls. A tame animal--in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#humans #nature #nature

Men are men ... Dragons are dragons. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men

Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#human-nature #poetry #men

But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about. ↗

— James Lusarde

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