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#1

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#2

“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850)”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: history, humanity, life, mankind

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#3

“If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning

tags: civilization, humanity, language, society, writing

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#4

“Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?”
― Budd Schulberg

tags: completion, humanity, relationships, togetherness

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#5

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”
― Robert Browning, Browning's Paracelsus: being the text of Browning's poem

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#6

“A society without the authentic and vibrant influence of women is a society that is not fully alive. A culture lacking the vital creativity of women is disadvantaged. Without the bearing of women on world affairs, humanity's already tenuous grip on peace is made even less sure. When women are barred, whether by law, cultural prejudice, or political ideology, from developing their full potential and offering their unique gifts, it is an injustice to women themselves and to humanity as a whole.”
― Stephen Catanzarite, Achtung Baby

tags: feminism, humanity, women

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#7

“Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.”
― Helder Camara, Spiral of Violence

tags: culture, diversity, empowerment, humanity, identity, justice, language, multiculturalism

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#8

“Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

tags: humanism, humanity, inspirational

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#9

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. ”
― Chris Abani

tags: compassion, humanity, world

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#10

“The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.”
― Veronica Roth

tags: humanity

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#11

“A traditional doctor gets paid to push pills, vaccinate, radiate, and basically exterminate people. No different than a contract killer—except the hit man is more honest, as he doesn’t claim to be helping humanity. Holistic medicine is the only way to go.”
― Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

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#12

“Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: god, gods, humanism, humanity, hypocrisy, hypocrites, impurities, impurity, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, people, righteous, righteousness, spiritual, spirituality

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#13

“A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: brokenness, human-soul, humanity, incense, soul

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#14

“We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

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#15

“There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are.”
― Jeff Wilson, Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness

tags: compassion, humanity, kindness, perfection

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#16

“The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life”
― Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The Prophet of Zongo Street: Unforgettable West African Stories of Folklore, Myth, and Modernity

tags: happiness, humanity, inspirational, life, people

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#17

“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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#18

“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)”
― Plato

tags: and-everything, humanity, humor, life, politics, society, the-universe

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#19

“We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

tags: acceptance, background, confidence, cultivation, development, enlightenment, heritage, humanity, humans, life, mankind, original-sin, origins, pride, progress, sentient-beings, shame, truth

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#20

“The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.”
― Charles W. Chesnutt

tags: divinity, humanity

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#21

“It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people.
They grow used to the unthinkable,
and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. They
will not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn
to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.”
― Charles Morgan

tags: humanity

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#22

“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

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#23

“Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.”
― Tiffany Madison, Black and White

tags: compassion, empathy, humanity, love

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#24

“Sharing your success with others reveals your true humanity. Don't ever be afraid to open your heart to that practice. It has made all the world of difference to me.”
― Andrea Michaels, Reflections of a Successful Wallflower: Lessons in Business; Lessons in Life

tags: humanity, success

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#26

“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

tags: communicate, communication, connected, connection, group, groups, human-beings, human-nature, humanity, tribe, tribes

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#27

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

tags: aliens, closed-mindedness, discovery, humanity, ignorance, mankind, narrow-mindedness, self-discovery, space-exploration

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#28

“You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters.”
― Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

tags: humanity, self-worth

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#29

“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.”
― Boyd Norton, Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning

tags: africa, humanity, knowledge, origins, wilderness, youth

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#30

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#31

“It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

tags: closeness-to-nature, humanity, humor, nature

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