Human nature quotations

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◆ 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

◆ In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

- Sophie Kinsella99

◆ Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ ...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

- Neal Shusterman99

◆ People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

- Dorothy L. Sayers99

◆ On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

- George Orwell99

◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who's broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don't know where we come from … we don't know where we are.

- Laurie Anderson99

◆ If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow99

◆ As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

- Alexandre Dumas99

◆ Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

- Erol Ozan99