#human

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#body #direction #experiences #gravitational #hidden

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#concerning #destiny #education #failure #human

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capacity #destination #energy #fact #get

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#addictions #consumer-culture #consumerism #creation #creativity

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human. ↗

— David Coverdale

#back #being #being human #feel #get

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choose #conscience #creative #every

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#being #complementary #culture #divinity #grace

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#human #i #nervous #think #you

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. ↗

— Marie Curie

#discoveries #draw #evil #good #humanity

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#color #difference #differences #equality #harmony