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To Be Human Quotes

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If people have to put labels on me, I’d prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer  (To Be Human Quotes) How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter  (To Be Human Quotes) At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace  (To Be Human Quotes) I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy  (To Be Human Quotes) It’s appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings  (To Be Human Quotes) Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all  (To Be Human Quotes) I just think that fiction that isn’t exploring what it means to be human today isn’t art  (To Be Human Quotes) I can’t remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human  (To Be Human Quotes) Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings  (To Be Human Quotes) The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human  (To Be Human Quotes) I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human  (To Be Human Quotes) To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too  (To Be Human Quotes) So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I’m not sure. That’s my answer: I’m not sure  (To Be Human Quotes) For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing  (To Be Human Quotes) To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from  (To Be Human Quotes) Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field  (To Be Human Quotes) I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my wrinkles. I thought, you mean this is what it’s gonna be about now? I’m not going to be permitted to be human?  (To Be Human Quotes) To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies  (To Be Human Quotes) I think it’s a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?  (To Be Human Quotes) Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal  (To Be Human Quotes) The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment  (To Be Human Quotes) Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human  (To Be Human Quotes) Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth  (To Be Human Quotes) Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we’re also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite  (To Be Human Quotes) A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family  (To Be Human Quotes) To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane  (To Be Human Quotes) To be seen to be human, provided you’re doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all  (To Be Human Quotes) Art’s true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being  (To Be Human Quotes) Theories and goals of education don’t matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings  (To Be Human Quotes) Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person  (To Be Human Quotes)
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