I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. Furthermore, I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. Furthermore, I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. Furthermore, I feel like, God already knows I'm human...it is I who needs to learn that.

— C. JoyBell C.

If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

— McCall Hoyle

If you love and care enough, you will give a lot, you will forgive a lot.

— Nurudeen Ushawu

I honor the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the center of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.

— Jay Woodman

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

— Sue Fitzmaurice

In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.

— Christos Yannaras

I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing about them, seeing their colors, hearing their stories... and when humans are broken, they're like broken butterfly wings; suddenly there are so many beauties that are seen in different ways, so many thoughts and visions and possibilities that form, which couldn't form when the person wasn't broken! So it is not a very sad thing to be broken, after all! It's during the times of being broken, that you have all the opportunities to become things unforgettable! Just like the broken butterfly wing that I found, which has given me so many thoughts, in so many ways, has shown me so many words, and imaginations! But butterflies need to know, that it doesn't matter at all if the whole world saw their colors or not! But what matters is that they flew, they glided, they hovered, they saw, they felt, and they knew! And they loved the ones whom they flew with! And that is an existence worthwhile!

— C. JoyBell C.

It is of immense importance, that first and foremost, people identify themselves as human beings, rather than as a believer in a spiritual belief system. Any spiritual belief system. There is such a preoccupation with where a person will be after he/she dies, that people keep on forgetting we are all here right now— on this planet! Okay, so you are on your way to Heaven, of course, whilst many others who do not believe as you do are on their way to hell, of course— but those are not yet facts! The fact that we do have, though, is the fact that we are all here right now, on this Earth, living this life, breathing this air, and it's about time we identify ourselves with the reality in front of us: that we are human beings, and we all cry, laugh, love and hurt.

— C. JoyBell C.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

— Elizabeth Berg

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

— Dianna Hardy