The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.
Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.
In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.
When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.
Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.
Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.
Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.
It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
Are we Human? Or are we dancer? My sign is vital, My hands are cold, And I'm on my knees, begging for the answer, To are we Human? Or are we Dancer?
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
Çoğu insan Kafka'nın ihtiyarına benzer. Umut ederler ama yüreklerinin sesini, itkisini dinleme ve ona göre davranma yetisinden yoksundurlar; bürokratlar onlara yeşil ışık yakmadığı sürece beklerler de beklerler.
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
