All Quotes By Tag: Humanity

“The most rewarding thing in life; is finding a purpose in helping a fellow human without religious or ideological notions, and motivating others to do the same…..”

“To see the light in your heart, you must first open all windows in your mind which were shut during your early years….”

“Religions served a purpose in establishing social order during the human evolving experience, but in today’s secular connected world, religions had become a liability for further progress….”

“أرني ما لا يُرى وأسمعني ما لا يُسمع أرني كيف ترى ما بين السطوروما خلف الأفقدعني أُنصتُ لموسيقى لم تعزف بعد لحديث تكرره الطبيعة دعني أدرك بكل حواسيكيف يكون الإنسان أعظم مخلوقات الله في هذا الكوندعني أحيا بإنسانيتي لا تمسس بـ ما أؤمن بهولا تقرب مقدساتي لا تَمْتَهِن الحبالحب هو الدين الذي أعرفه”

“Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feelings for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner – no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses … for in him also Christ ‘vere latitat’ – the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”

“Every human being has the potential for mastery. Every soul deeply yearns to contribute.”

“If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.”

“Great leaders feels the need of their people, more than their own.”

“In order to cope with death, you need the correct punctuation. Not a final period, not a comma as on Aleya, but a chance to fill in the blank— life, ‘dot dot dot’.”

“Once upon a time there was a jungle…..They then built a society, deforesting the landThis is how the wild animals went homeless and social animals found a home…”

“One of poetry’s great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.”Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology”

“I believe by Elizabeth AlexanderPoetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said“Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”)digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, love,and I’m sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other?”

“A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument,” Leonardo da Vinci”

“The StadiumHave you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators.At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the glory days of Uruguayan soccer. Maracanã is still crying over Brazil’s 1950 World Cup defeat. At Bombonera in Buenos Aires, drums boom from half a century ago. From the depths of Azteca Stadium, you can hear the ceremonial chants of the ancient Mexican ball game. The concrete terraces of Camp Nou in Barcelona speak Catalan, and the stands of San Mamés in Bilbao talk in Basque. In Milan, the ghosts of Giuseppe Meazza scores goals that shake the stadium bearing his name. The final match of the 1974 World Cup, won by Germany, is played day after day and night after night at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia has marble and gold boxes and carpeted stands, but it has no memory or much of anything to say.”