Humanism sayings
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- Kurt Vonnegut99◆ There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Mahatma Gandhi99◆ I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
- Daisaku Ikeda99◆ Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
- Christopher Hitchens99◆ Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.
- Kurt Vonnegut99◆ it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
- Daisaku Ikeda99◆ We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
- Jean-Paul Sartre99◆ I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.
- C. JoyBell C.99◆ The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
- Albert Camus99
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