Top 100 Fully Human Quotes
#2. To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
Aldous Huxley
#3. Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;
Patrick O'Brian
#4. We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.
Caspar Henderson
#5. To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#6. Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.
Hillary Clinton
#7. It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human.
Pema Chodron
#8. Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
Anthony De Mello
#9. As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
John Ortberg
#10. Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
Murray Rothbard
#11. South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
J.M. Coetzee
#12. We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.
Pope Francis
#13. Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.
David Whyte
#14. A teenager boy is a monstrous cyborg, an unfeeling, beastly machine, not fully human, and not housebroken. Rumbustious teenage boys are an infernal organism disdainful of everything, yet intent of contributing to human evolution.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#15. [re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about working with fully human beings who will be reembodied at the last, after the model of the Messiah.
N. T. Wright
#16. Che is transformed into a hardened symbol of resistance, a symbol of the fight for what is just, of passion, of the necessity of being fully human, multiplied infinitely in the ideals and weapons of those who struggle. This is what the front men and their omnipotent handlers fear.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#17. To be fully human is ... to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. Einstein's Monsters, by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
Martin Amis
#19. Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."
--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry
Tamara Valentine
#20. One does not become fully human painlessly.
Rollo May
#21. For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
Thomas Keating
#22. Image-bearing means becoming fully human, not becoming divine. It means reflecting as a limited being the perfections of a limitless God.
Jen Wilkin
#23. Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
Weston La Barre
#24. The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that ... any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I would have been a dead girl walking ...
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#25. We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
Timothy Keller
#26. When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.
Dan Millman
#27. Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.
Pema Chodron
#28. My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing
Abraham Maslow
#29. Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Alveda King
#30. We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.
Wendy Beckett
#31. The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
Abraham Maslow
#32. We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.
John Welwood
#33. Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us fully human.
Billy Graham
#34. To be fully human has little to do with always being the centre of attention, getting your way and having all your ambitions met. To be fully human is to be like Christ, to 'count others better than yourselves' (Phil 2:13)...It takes rare strength to treat others as more important than yourself.
Dick Keyes
#35. Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.
Henry Miller
#36. He feels the need to hear a human voice - a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion - his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.
Margaret Atwood
#37. The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
Thomas Keating
#38. This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.
David T. Dellinger
#39. She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.
Peter Watts
#40. We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.
Paul Gruchow
#41. If the eternal Son could become fully human without sin (Heb 4:15), then surely God can communicate his truth through thoroughly human ambassadors while preserving their writings from error.
Michael S. Horton
#42. The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human.
That means one hundred and fifty million to one.
Which means one hundred and fifty million in one.
Allan Gurganus
#43. Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?
Randy Alcorn
#44. Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!
Daniel Horan
#45. To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
C.S. Lewis
#46. Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.
Sheila Cassidy
#47. To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.
Hillary Clinton
#48. Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.
Eva Hoffman
#49. Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.
C.S. Lewis
#50. A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
#51. Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Robert A. Heinlein
#52. It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now ... with its aches and it pleasures ... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
Pema Chodron
#53. The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.
David Steindl-Rast
#54. I still don't know how to live my life except on my haunches at the feet of Jesus, eyes fixed on his face. Nothing else "works." No formula, no method makes me feel so fully human and alive as the radical act of living loved.
Sarah Bessey
#55. The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.
Margot Adler
#56. To be fully alive, fully human
and completely awake is
to be continually thrown
out of the nest.
Pema Chodron
#57. In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
Adrienne Rich
#58. The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
Patricia Deegan
#59. Oh, I would not want a knight with no dents. It means he has never been to battle, never fought for his honor, the things he believes in, or for sheer survival. Without the dents, sir, I would not trust my knight to be fully human.
Kathleen Bittner Roth
#60. It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.
Ron Brackin
#61. There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.
Betty Friedan
#62. History, for better or worse, is 'us' on a grand scale - full of secrets, beauty, fear, longing, and stifled love. Without history, our lives would not be complete, and we could not be, in the best sense, fully 'human.
Boria Sax
#63. When I woke up in you, Cassie. I wasn't fully human until I saw myself in your eyes. And then there are real human tears in his real human eyes, and it's my turn to hold him while his heart breaks. My turn to see myself in his eyes.
Rick Yancey
#64. We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word.
Rudolf Steiner
#65. Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
W. H. Auden
#66. I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral.
John Shelby Spong
#67. For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.
Izzeldin Abuelaish
#68. Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#70. To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.
Sue Monk Kidd
#71. What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
Paulo Freire
#72. You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.
Beyers Naude
#73. Our legal department was Stuart Dogs, one of the few fully human people on our payroll. He was a Cherokee from Oklahoma with a brutal legal mind and the enviable ability to simply not worry about weird shit that didn't concern him.
Misha Burnett
#74. The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
Carleton S. Coon
#75. Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance.
Lama Surya Das
#77. The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.
Josef Pieper
#78. What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.
Robin Sharma
#79. The Gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is mean to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.
N. T. Wright
#80. It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.
Theodore Dalrymple
#81. Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.
Pedro Arrupe
#82. Work is a form of love. We cannot be fully human without creating value.
John Ortberg
#83. Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.
Hans Rookmaaker
#84. We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
Jean Vanier
#85. Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.
Valerie Sayers
#86. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
Viktor E. Frankl
#87. The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's
Sebastian Junger
#88. To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love
Harold Kushner
#89. The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.
(Hari Kunzru)
Carolina De Robertis
#90. Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.
P. J. O'Rourke
#91. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.
Jonathan Martin
#92. They were a tangle of limbs on the bed, limbs and f lesh and bodies entwined so fully, joined so deeply, that it was as if they were sealed together. The heat had melted and merged them. They weren't even human now, but sex in its rawest, purest form.
Anonymous
#93. The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.
Angelina Grimke
#94. It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.
Neal Asher
#95. Becoming a leader is the same as becoming a fully integrated human being,
Ken Wilber
#97. To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him.
Jamie George
#98. The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration." To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls "specificity," the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.
Adam Kirsch
#99. The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
Daniel Goleman
#100. A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life ... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.
Ralph Davis
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