Quotes About Humanness

#1. We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it ... and to remember our Divine nature.

Sonia Choquette

#2. Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is.

J.I. Packer

#3. I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

Jurgen Teller

#4. Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.

Rajneesh

#5. Ah God, what has man done to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow men? They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

Rajneesh

#7. When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Edward Bond

#8. Souls always do recognize themselves. It is the humanness that surrounds and embodies the soul that fails to recognize or make sense of the wonderment that dwells and resides at the center of whom we are; who we need to become.

David Michelinie

#9. No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Hermann Broch

#10. Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn't there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self.

John De Ruiter

#11. We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn't that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it's a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it's all mixed up together, it's us: humanness.

Pema Chodron

#12. To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

George Stanley

#13. Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Herbie Hancock

#14. Never let your success interfere with your humanness.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

Leo Buscaglia

#16. Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

Maya Angelou

#17. I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

#18. I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other's humanness. None of us is perfect.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#19. We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Watts

#20. Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

Deborah Day

#21. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

Walter Brueggemann

#22. If God wasn't mightily amused by our humanness, I figure he'd have wiped us out a long time ago.

Jill Conner Browne

#23. We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

Jean Vanier

#24. I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Isabelle Adjani

#25. The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.

Breyten Breytenbach

#26. The more that you are being your ideas, the less human you are. The deeper your realization, being in your heart, the more of your humanness you come into.

John De Ruiter

#27. Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish.

Sathya Sai Baba

#28. 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

#29. When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#30. The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?

Sathya Sai Baba

#31. I don't want those things from you. I love your faults and imperfections. Your kind heart. The scars that match mine, and the struggles to find ourselves. I want your humanness. Nothing else.

A.G. Howard

#32. Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

Georges Bataille

#33. If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Tara Brach

#34. Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

George Carlin

#35. The church's task in the world is to model genuine humanness as a sign and an invitation to those around.

N. T. Wright

#36. The Christian story proclaims that all the demands of Scripture are ultimately summons, calls, invitations - beckoning us to experience true, beautiful, and good humanness.

Wesley Hill

#37. Being human, we are constantly broken apart by experience. To reconcile our humanness means we are ever learning how to accept our suffering and to restore our Wholeness.

Mark Nepo

#38. Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

Tim Crouch

#39. Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

Sonia Choquette

#40. I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

N. T. Wright

#41. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.

Bryan Stevenson

#42. In our humanness we can't handle all His holiness; so God, in mercy, raises the veil and dwells in mystery.

James MacDonald

#43. If you truly love someone, your love sees past their humanness

Michael A. Singer

#44. Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being.

Narayan Desai

#45. Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

Simon Van Booy

#46. Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#47. Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.

Audre Lorde

#48. Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#49. Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness.
We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not.
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

#50. If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Vaclav Havel

#51. Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Patrick Lencioni

#52. The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

Jesse Owens

#53. Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Eric Hoffer

#54. The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation

John Green

#55. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Marquis De Sade

#56. It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Paul Strand

#57. For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?

Kamand Kojouri

#58. And seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.

Marianne Williamson

#59. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

#60. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

Maxine Kumin

#61. Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.

Frederick Lenz

#62. We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

Tian Dayton

#63. What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

Ali Sina

#64. Anytime a sage displays humanness - in regard to money, food, sex, relationships - we are shocked, shocked, because we are planning to escape life altogether, not live it, and the sage who lives life offends us.

Ken Wilber

#65. Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. DAVID AUGSBURGER

Paul David Tripp

#66. When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God's grace ... Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.

Darlene Zschech

#67. Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.

Sathya Sai Baba

#68. Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

Viktor E. Frankl

#69. However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

Sathya Sai Baba

#70. Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#71. Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.

Patrick Fabian

#72. Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Marilyn French

#73. Because most people have great difficulty recognizing the humanity of another person if they can't recognize that person's gender, the gender-changing person can evoke in others a primordial fear of monstrosity, or loss of humanness.

Susan Stryker

#74. There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

Carlos Castaneda

#75. ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS

William Gibson

#76. Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.

Elizabeth Berrien

#77. I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.

Joy Harjo

#78. Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

Florence King

#79. You should've told me Tess," I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

Pepper Winters

#80. Holiness and humanness are correlative terms and mutual implicates (as the logicians would put it). To the

J.I. Packer

#81. And so was the synagogue lifted and moved. It was in 1783 that wheels were attached, making the shtetl's ever-changing negotiation of Jewishness and Humanness less of a schlep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#82. I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

Oprah Winfrey

#83. I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#84. I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Daniel Keyes

#85. I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#86. A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a lomg, long time ago.

Tracey Emin