Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.
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The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
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We talked about how passive they were in the first quarter.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
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Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.
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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
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From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
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Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.
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Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
