Being Human Quotes

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be. You’re reminded that your feelings are not who you are, but how you felt at that moment. Your bad choices defined you yesterday, but they are not who you are today. Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life. You don’t have to put up with people that are insecure and want you to fail. All you have to do is walk forward with a positive outlook, and trust that God has a plan that is greater than the sorrow you left behind. The people of quality that were meant to be in your life won’t need you to explain the beauty of your heart. They already understand what being human is----a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I'm human...it is I who needs to learn that.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It's shocking the things we call love.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To me, real love, the move from power to love, involves immense suffering. Any creative work comes from that level, where we share our sufferings, just the sheer suffering of being human. And that's where the real love is.”
― Marion Woodman, Conscious Femininity: Interviews With Marion Woodman

“My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.”
― Sue Fitzmaurice

“Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability that allows us to be useful creatures on this planet; without empathy, we are a waste of oxygen in this world. Without empathy, we are lower than animals. Empathy is the ability that allows us the perception of things around us, outside of ourselves; so a person without empathy is a limited human being, someone who will only live half of a life.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I’m serious, Sasha: what is so important about being human? Is it because you simply haven’t experienced anything else?”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“The law's the law, but people are people.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Yes, I value emotions deeply.
Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life.
If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human,
Why do people suppress feeling them ?
Does the bruising scare them ? Than I wonder who is weak ?”
― Wordions

“It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Pull of the Moon

“Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget that you are human.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The notion that a vast gulf exists between "criminals" and those of us who have never served time in prison is a fiction created by the racial ideology that birthed mass incarceration, namely that there is something fundamentally wrong and morally inferior about "them." The reality, though, is that all of us have done wrong. As noted earlier, studies suggest that most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime. Indeed, most of us break the law not once but repeatedly throughout our lives. Yet only some of us will be arrested, charged, convicted of a crime, branded a criminal or a felon, and ushered into a permanent undercaste. Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of the crimes committed. Who is more blameworthy: the young black kid who hustles on the street corner, selling weed to help his momma pay rent? Or the college kid who deals drugs out of his dorm room so that he'll have cash to finance his spring break? Who should we fear? The kid in the 'hood who joined a gang and now carries a gun for security, because his neighborhood is frightening and unsafe? Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives with varying degrees of justification. Screwing up-failing to live by one's highest ideals and values-is part of what makes us human.”
― Michelle Alexander

“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.”
― Christos Yannaras, Relational Ontology

“Yes, I value emotions deeply.
Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life.
If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human,
Why do people suppress feeling them ?
Does the bruising scare them ? Than I wonder who is weak ?”
― Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.”
― Patricia Lynne, Being Human

“We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.”
― Jon Courtenay Grimwood, End of the World Blues

“Depression can feel like a silent fog settling over the heart, dulling the vibrant colors of life and muting the melodies of joy. Yet within this gray landscape, there is a quiet resilience, a will that endures even when all seems shrouded. Though the light feels distant, even a single flicker can remind us that life, in its hidden beauty, still holds us close.”
― An Marke

“In the grasp of sorrow, it can feel as though we are walking through endless shadows, each step heavier than the last. Yet even in the depths, a whisper of hope lingers, gently stirring beneath the weight. Perhaps healing begins in the smallest of moments, when we allow ourselves to sense the tender kindness of our own heart, willing us forward despite the darkness.”
― An Marke

“Depression is a veil that dims not only our eyes but our spirit, making it hard to recall the beauty we once knew. Yet there is a grace that abides within us, patiently waiting until we find ourselves ready to breathe it in. When all else feels lost, may we trust in the quiet strength of this presence that neither leaves nor fails us.”
― An Marke

“Life is a delicate dance between loss and rebirth, where the heart must often break open to make space for what is true. Every fall, every shattering leaves us wiser, etching the silent contours of resilience into the soul. To live fully, one must first learn to greet the shadow as an old friend, for only then can light take root in the deeper ground of being.”
― An Marke

“In the quiet ruins of what we thought we were, a new self waits patiently, growing in the soil of every hardship endured. It is in those places of silence and surrender that life begins again, shedding layers of illusion and summoning forth the courage to step into the unknown. It is here that we learn the alchemy of becoming whole, not in spite of our wounds, but because of them.”
― An Marke

“When we are stripped of our certainties, standing in the bare bones of our own solitude, we discover the fragile beauty of our humanity. It is in the raw moments of being undone that we find the grace to begin anew, piecing ourselves back together with threads of humility and compassion. Each descent into darkness holds the key to a deeper, braver light within us.”
― An Marke

“To live fully is to embrace the cycles of death and rebirth that mark the path of every human journey. Each ending gifts us with the freedom to be reshaped by life, if only we will surrender to its wisdom. In our fragility lies the courage to grow beyond the confines of our former selves, stretching toward a horizon that only loss could reveal.”
― An Marke