Quotes
Quotes about Being
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however -Richard Bach
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
You must allow people to be right, because it consoles them for not being anything else.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
A strange form of self-indulgence! There are times when I would be wronged and cheated, that I may laugh at the expense of those who think I do not know I am being wronged and cheated.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
