Human Beings - Tumblr Posts
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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.”
—Henri Bergson
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
—Baruch Spinoza
“For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.”
—Edgar Cayce
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
—Henry Ford
“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.”
—Hippocrates
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings”
—Hippocrates
Synchronicities happen a lot more when you’re spreading love, giving back and being yourself
Forgive but don’t enable bad behaviour
“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
—Voltaire
“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
—Don Miguel Ruiz
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
—Don Miguel Ruiz
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
—Maya Angelou
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
—Simone Weil
“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”
—Maya Angelou
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
—Bruce Lee