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• Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Topics in Humanity, Life, Love

  Tags in Compassion, Relationships

• The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art, Humanity, Love

• We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Material Possessions, Civilization

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Mistake

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Freedom

• One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

  Wendell Berry

  Topics in Humanity, Nature

  Tags in Garden

• Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

  Anne Wilson Schaef

  Topics in Humanity, Life, Nature

  Tags in Change/Growth

• The only real nation is humanity.

  Paul Farmer

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Interdependence, Patriotism, Globalism

• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Humanity

• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  René Descartes

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil, Mind, Choice, Choosing

• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

  Rachel Carson

  Topics in Humanity, Nature, Power

  Tags in Change/Growth, Choice, Choosing

• If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

  Unknown

  Topics in Future, Humanity, Justice, Kindness

  Tags in Empathy, Thomas Berry, Earth, Presence

• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  Don Marquis

  Topics in Humanity, Progress

• The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.

  Felix Adler

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Humanism, Purpose

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Attitude, Humanity

  Tags in Change/Growth, Reform

• Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Topics in Humanity, Nature

  Tags in Connections, Interdependence, Relationships, Science

• A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

  Tenzin Gyatso

  Topics in Humanity, Religion

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights

• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Humanity, Inspirational, Life, Service

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Humanity, Justice, Service

• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Humanity, Life, Love, Success

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Solitude, Heart, Inspiration

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Topics in Humanity, Love, Religion, Suffering

  Tags in Compassion, Despair