Quotes of: Human-needs Keyword

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, river...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an aspect built into the fundamental spe...

A Comparative Study of the Religions of Today

They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank discussions. And Shirley can join too because the pun works. The ideas of human beings of all demeanor and venues are at...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Submission, Faith & Beauty: The Religion of Islam

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

My Inventions

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now; action or inaction.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

Peter Munk

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

Lloyd Alexander

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Matthieu Ricard

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

Jane Hirshfield

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

Malcolm Boyd

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory h...

Douglas Rushkoff

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

Gloria Steinem

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

Donella Meadows

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

Laura Riding

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

Shinzo Abe