Quotes in the category humans.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.
All my problems bow before my stubbornness.
Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.
Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.
The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.
A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.
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