Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

---

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ― Tahereh Mafi

---

History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

---

I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

---

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.- Neil Armstrong

---

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer

---

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. - Charles Spurgeon

---

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

---

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

---

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

---