Humanness Quotes

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Love
  • Health

• I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

  

  Isabelle Adjani
  • Yourself
  • Test
  • Expose

• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Challenges
  • Buddhism
  • Humanness

• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Work
  • Love
  • Cornerstones

• Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

  

  Deborah Day
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Lighten

• Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Loneliness
  • Offering

• Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Destiny
  • Compassion
  • Humanness

• Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Hurt
  • Compassion
  • Criticism

• What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

  

  Ali Sina
  • Conscience
  • Beasts
  • Humanness

• Though 'Shahid' was the only true story, what happened in 'Trapped' can happen to anyone. And I am sure there are people like Newton, and there are boys who are naive, sweet, and rowdy, like my part in 'Bareilly'... The humanness is something I loved.

  

  Rajkummar Rao
  • Happened
  • Trapped
  • Though

• The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.

  

  Misha Collins
  • Philosophical
  • Qualities
  • Findings