People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.
Isabel AllendeTags: happiness freedom sadness human-nature self-realization
Ego is the world's worst narcotic
Mekael ShaneTags: humor spiritual human-nature attributed-life
In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: truth man silence religion human-nature spirituality
Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".
Nathanie RandallTags: science religion human-nature philosophical
People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.
Sherrilyn KenyonTags: human-nature giving-up
The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.
Neal ShustermanTags: human-nature impossible
Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim, and have no objection to getting their names and pictures in the papers.
Leslie McFarlaneTags: politics human-nature
Men are men ... Dragons are dragons.
George R.R. MartinTags: human-nature
Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.
OtsuichiTags: love parents world humanity children death human-nature insight resentment gratitude epiphany parents-and-children contradictions contradictory spots sunny love-and-loss love-and-death
History is a record of human nature in action.
James Carlos BlakeTags: history human-nature
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