by Carina
“Who are you? What is our purpose on this planet? Why do we do what we do? How do we define ourselves? What shapes our personalities? What drives our actions? What influences our relationships? What defines our lives?
What does it mean to be human?”
In issue viii: the human experience, we want to know what being human means to you. We want to hear about how you perceive life’s mysteries, beauty, and pain. How has the human experience affected you? So, in this article I will be providing quotes to inspire your writing for this theme.
“Be silly. Be fun. Be different. Be crazy. Be you, because life is too short to be anything but happy.” - Unknown
“A good life is a collection of happy memories.” - Denis Waitley
“Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.” - Patti Hansen
“May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.” - Xan Oku
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” - Max Depree
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” - Unknown
“Never regret anything that made you smile.” - Mark Twain
“I know that one day, when you’re finally in the place you’ve dreamt of, you will look back at this period of your life and feel so grateful that you didn’t give up.” - @wetheurban on Instagram
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” - C.S. Lewis
“Make happiness a priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” - Bronnie Ware
“Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on hard days you know there are better days to come.” - Unknown
“If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” - Maya Angelou
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” - Oscar Wilde
“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” - Tom Hiddleston
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” - Hans Christian Andersen
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” - Mark Twain
“What we think, we become.” - Buddha
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tears are words the heart can’t say.” - Unknown
“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” - Linda Poindexter
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens
“You can’t do anything about the length of your life. But you can do something about its width and depth.” - Evan Esar
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” - Rupi Kaur
“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” - Charles Glassman
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now- not for the person we were in the past.” - Marie Kondo
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” - Emily Dickinson
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” - Virginia Woolf
“Beneath life’s beautiful facade, unseen scars tell a story of untold struggles, unfinished tasks, and hidden tears, making it a more complex and captivating tale.” - Litsa Ruby
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Viktor E. Frankl
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” - Buddha
“You are alive. Feel the air fill your lungs and the sun kiss your cheek. These things are enough and enough is everything.” - JH Hard
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” - Leo Tolstoy
“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” - Marcel Proust
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” - John W. Gardner
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” - C. Joybell C.
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” - Joseph Campbell
“The idea is not to live forever but to create something that will.” - Andy Warhol
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anaïs Nin
“Be courageous enough to create a life that suits your personality. You can’t use the same formula as everyone else.” - Ash Alves
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.” - John Locke
Whether you use these quotes for your submissions for issue viii: the human experience, or anything else, I hope they provided some inspiration for you. For information, check out the issue viii page on our website.
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