“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.”
Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling 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.”
Albert Einstein

“Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.”
Anne Wilson Schaef

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”
Arthur Rubinstein

“For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”
Donald Williams

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
George Orwell

“Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.”
Dalai Lama

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Oscar Wilde

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
Pearl S. Buck

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
Rene Descartes

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
Ryunosuke Satoro

“To err is human – but it feels divine.”
Mae West

“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”
William Allen White, American Journalist

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
Dave Berry, American Writer

“We all boil at different degrees.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
Dale Carnegie

“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Humanity will one day be defined, not by the gifts we possess but the virtues we lack.”
Unknown

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”
Tom Robbins

“Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.”
R. M. Baumgardy

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
Charles Dickens