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For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.


Thomas Keating

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MARTIN BUBER To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.
ANNE RICE Indian authorities have fully cleared the wheat for human consumption.
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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN In all our efforts to become better human beings, remember not to give up on the rest of them.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinct...
STEVEN MAGEE Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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GORE VIDAL To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it...
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ALVEDA KING To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that coope...
TOM G. PALMER We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.
CASPAR HENDERSON When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of your...
FRANK HERBERT The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the ...
HUMAN ANGELS Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am.
HUMAN ANGELS None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
ANNE RICE “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
ANNE RICE Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics
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DEEPAK CHOPRA To taste fully is to live fully.
KATE CHRISTENSEN I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
LELAND STANFORD Human beings seem too caught up making excuses for their selfish tendencies rather than trying to im...
GARY M When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of y...
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ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver...
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JANE MCGONIGAL Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and ...
INDONESIA123 A Human never become a God, since Human die but God never die, and God is infinite.
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FEDERICA MOGHERINI Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, becom...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
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SUN MYUNG MOON A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority ...
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RUTA SEPETYS Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above ever...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Become a good all-around human being.
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C.S. LEWIS To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.
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JOSEPH FABRY The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
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JORGE EDUARDO CONTRERAS SALCEDO The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully re...
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GEORGE ELIOT I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work...
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MASASHI KISHIMOTO A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS