Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Human Condition Quotes
ExpectationFear vs JoyHappinessHuman ConditionImperfection At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
Human ConditionInnovationProgress Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
Existential ThemesHuman ConditionMid-Life StrugglesPersonal GrowthSpirituality I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
EmotionForgivenessHuman ConditionTransformationUniqueness As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
Human ConditionImmortalitySignificanceSoul The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Human ConditionMortalityPurposeSuffering No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
AvoidanceHuman ConditionSelf Reflection Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
CopingHuman ConditionSubstance UseSuffering Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Human ConditionIgnoranceMysteryReincarnation But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Human ConditionHumilitySelf-awareness The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
BeliefExistentialismHuman ConditionIdentityImagination We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.
BoredomDistractionFrivolityHuman Condition Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.