#human being

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ↗

— Anthony de Mello

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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#being #choices #creature #food #given

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#being #blow #clown #forces #human

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. ↗

— Graham Nash

#became #began #beings #better #better way

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ↗

— Anais Nin

#acted #being #come #every #fate

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#been #being #decide #early #fascinating

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time. ↗

— Gale Norton

#going #human #human beings #long #long time

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#bleak #faith #future #hope #human

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be. ↗

— Annette O'Toole

#being #best #christopher #christopher reeve #embodied