To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.
Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
To be fully human is. . . to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
a normal human being. . . does not exist.
All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.
We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.
God Is Using Gianna Jessen To Remind The World, That Each Human Being Is Precious To Him.