Since human consciousness has traversed its journey from an amoeba to a
human being on the Principle of Evolution, if you note carefully, each one of us
will find many animal instincts within ourselves. To get rid of these instincts is the
first and foremost duty of every human being.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Human
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
-Confucius "Confucius"
Rendering help to another is the function of all human beings.
-Scriptures "Tattvarthasutra 5.21"
Every person has both a bad heart and a good heart. No matter how good a man seems, he has some evil. No matter how bad a man seems, there is some good about him. No man is perfect.
-Mohawk Tradition "Mohawk tradition"
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
-Mahatma Gandhi "Mahatma Gandhi"
A detached human being is the one who is neither in the race to achieve
something nor is anxious to renounce anything.
-Deep Trivedi
You deserve to be called a human being only when you develop good feelings in you. Let your thoughts, words and deeds be suffused with sacred feelings.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sathya Sai Baba"
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
-A Spiritual Leader "Daisaku Ikeda"
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with the heart.
-David Korten "David Korten"
A man who is averse to harming even the wind knows the sorrow of all living things.
-Scriptures "Acaranga Sutra"
