Humanology Project Quotes & Sayings

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination. — Thomas Merton

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. — Anne Lamott

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. — Oscar Wilde

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart. — Joe Frazier

That man sitting on the steps made me understand that I was important to the world and to the history of my country. I felt necessary, and that's the best feeling a human being can have. — Paulo Coelho

deep pockets to be able to sustain a few years of losses. — Shyamal Majumdar

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. — Rita Dove

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature. — Isabella Bird