#Humanity

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it."

"Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution."

"Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide."

"It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone."

"To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human."

"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

"Transcendence and transformation of consciousness will create a new reality for humanity—not our economic success."

"The difference between you and everyone else, is everyone else. And that’s a lot, so you should feel special."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"There is no one who is happier than the person who is able to control his or her life. Who does what he /she thinks its right. Who pleases himself before everyone. Who doesn't suffer from what people will say syndrome. When you have time . Find a way to please yourself. Then you will be happiest person alive."

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch."

"The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life"

"We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity."

"A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains."

"The most amazing people are those who love life and humanity."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man."