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In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle 
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes our light goes out but
is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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