#condition

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change? Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching. Harper: And then up you get. And walk around. Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending. Harper: That's how people change. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#god #human-condition #change

I know now, just quite how My life and love might still go on In your heart, in your mind I'll stay with you for all of time. ↗

— Alex Band

#loss #unconditional-love #life

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #life

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#nature

Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two. ↗

— H.G. Mewis

#h-g-mewis #human-condition #life #art

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#human-condition #humanity #individuality #uniqueness #perception

Feel within, the pure and unconditional Love and embrace all. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#feel #pure #unconditional-love #within #love

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#disability #down-syndrome #inspirational #unconditional-love #beauty