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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou

Home, Long, Find

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Body, Decay

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

Power, Experience, Awesome

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac

Together, Dream, Mankind

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

Experience, Joy, Dark

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Natural, Cause

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

May, Found, Worst

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

Important, Soul, Sensitive

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi

Small, Conscience, Voice

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi

Society, Mind, Political

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran

Beautiful, End, Others

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

Mind, Around, Progress

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Feelings, Soul

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

Rather, Act, Grow

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, Anger, Person

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Power, Stupidity

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Silence, Suffering, Silent

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi

Thought, Action, Less

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Nature, Evil

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

Future, Vision, Face

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine

Power, Christian, Whether

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Home, Children, Earth

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy

May, Destiny, Problem

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

Silence, Words, Tragedy

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Great, Growth, Wonder

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates

Death, Greatest, Blessings

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Experience, Others, Learn

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins

Trust, Death, Mind

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

Light, Sometimes, Another

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Power, Different

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