Robert Monroe
Author
"Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary."
Being Human quotes
Being Human
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Rich Mullins
Musician
"Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human."
Lana Del Rey
Singer-Songwriter
"Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste."
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"... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]"
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"Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human."
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"What a bummer it is to be a human being."
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"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"
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"There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime."
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"Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being."
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"I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess."
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"Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human."
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"Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of."
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"Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed."
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"Stop being Jews and start being human beings."
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"Without emotion, what's the point of being human?"
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