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- It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
- Mary Daly
- Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
- George Tooker
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- Edward Chapin
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
- Pema Chodron
- The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
- Elizabeth Stone
- Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
- don Miguel Ruiz
- The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
- Jane Wyman (1914 - )
- You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
- Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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