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Humanities Quotes (page 113)

Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with..."
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. Elizabeth Gilbert
She's not Shimamoto, I told myself. She can't give me what Shimamoto gave. But here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. Haruki Murakami
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. R. Buckminster Fuller
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "You’re a different human being to everybody you meet."
You’re a different human being to everybody you meet. Chuck Palahniuk
Nora Roberts quote: "A lot of things some might think are a little crazy are just..."
A lot of things some might think are a little crazy are just human. Nora Roberts
As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd. Francis Schaeffer
She patted him on the arm. “You’re fucked up, Mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,” said Shadow. Neil Gaiman
How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do. Tom Robbins
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. J. D. Salinger
Virginia Woolf quote: "Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is..."
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you Virginia Woolf
To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core. John Bradshaw
The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings - and sometimes even their dogs and cats - do. But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking. Richard Adams
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. John Stuart Mill
H. G. Wells quote: "...fact takes no heed of human hopes."
...fact takes no heed of human hopes. H. G. Wells
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new Herman Hesse

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