209 Quotes About Being-human

We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human.

The only thing I hate more than people who treat me like I’m subhuman are people who treat me like I’m superhuman.

What does it mean to be human, to be good, to be moral, to be all three at once? It means that flawed beings often must choose between two flawed options.

It’s important to be able to recognise and seize crux moments when they do appear, but much of the time one is faced with quotidian tasks and routines. There’s an art and a science to these things; the art consists in trying to improvise more inventive means of breaking a silence and the science consists in trying to make the periods of silence bearable.

I am love and as such I receive love.

Our earliest memory of our Self is pure beauty.

Well, you were the Boss’s poodle. And you liked it. You liked to be spit on. You weren’t human. You weren’t real. That’s what I thought. But I was wrong, Tiny. Somewhere down in you there was something made you human. You resented being spit on. Even for money.

We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.

If you already are everything, everywhere, always, there is nowhere to go and nothing to be.(...) No limitation, no story. No story, no Being.