Good generalship is a realization that… you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

The human mind is capable of great things, but it can also be easily distracted.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist.

Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain’s alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system – the brain and the earth itself – work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

I really don’t look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don’t know their story

Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important; and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life

Among you boys you have a game: you stand a row of bricks on end a few inches apart; you push a brick, it knocks its neighbor over, the neighbor knocks over the next brick–and so on till all the row is prostrate. That is human life.

And they have no disregard for human life.

It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

There is no love of life without despair of life

Life ain’t worth living if you’re not taking risks

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: ‘what shall we do and how shall we live.