In all of his bestsellers, the Divine has told the truth,
custom-tailored to the comprehension of the times.
- Ernest Holmes
Each and every human being on Earth
has both the responsibility and the privilege
of viewing themselves as Divine beings
with the power to bring about peace.
- James Twyman
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom.
The inherent nature of man is ever seeking
to express itself in terms of freedom,
because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
- Ernest Holmes
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
I view the Divine and All of Life
from the perspective of Celebration.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
Namaste is a greeting of unity and acceptance
that recognizes the equality of all,
and pays honor to the sacredness of interconnection.
The sense of Namaste is
"The God in me greets the God in you,
I bow to the divine in you."
While saying Namaste, press the palms of the hands together
in front of the heart and bow the head slightly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- although attributed to St. Francis of Assisi,
this prayer first appeared (written in French) in 1912
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not used to feeling so human.
Is it always like this?
- Edward, from Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Our honorable and worthy ancestors knew that the world was flat,
motionless, and the center of the universe.
They knew the human body could not withstand
the forces of traveling faster than 19 mph.
They knew that the way to salvation was
exorcising witches and slaying non-believers.
They knew that it was a mortal sin to marry
someone of a different skin color.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
- John Galsworthy
Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The human spirit ranges across a truly amazing
diversity of experiences and emotions -
the highest peaks and the lowest valleys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What is human warfare but just this;
an effort to make the laws of God and
nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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