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This is a hard planet, and we're a vulnerable species. And all I can do is pray: Help. When
- Anne Lamott
Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic—jealousy especially so—but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.
- Anne Lamott
We won't love you if you're perfect.
- Anne Lamott
the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
John Donne, the sixteenth-century poet, wrote these familiar but profound words: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- Sheila Walsh
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.
- Danny Boyle
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
- David O. McKay
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
- Desmond Tutu
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
- Peter Kreeft
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
- Phillips Brooks
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.
- Oprah Winfrey
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
- Reinhold Niebuhr