The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.
Bryant McGillTag: humanity forgiveness forgiving forgive
Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.
Jean HausTag: humanity popularity high-school
Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?
Michelle MadowWhen you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
Criss JamiTag: imagination life art writing originality social perspective humanity solitude authenticity purity isolation brain artist alienation craft compromise creative introversion advantage loner genuine awkward fierce alienation-versus-humanity humanity-versus-alienation socially-awkward
His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
William GoldingTag: humanity god heaven hell nothingness insignificance
I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.
Dan McCurriganTag: humanity adventure death courage world-war-ii hero emotional
The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization was only a blink on the radar of time.
Michelle MadowI loved looking at the stars—they put in perspective how small I was compared to the Universe. Each of those hundreds of billions of stars was its own sun. It could have its own solar system of planets orbiting around it, and some of those planets could even contain life.
The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization was only a blink on the radar of time.
Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it’s only for a short while?
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
Don DeLilloTag: beauty world humanity good-and-evil ugliness summary infectious-diseases
The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.
The self-critical jackal does not exist.
The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
live as they live and are glad of it.
The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos
but in other respects it is light.
There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the Sun.
Tag: life experience morality humanity self-deprecation
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