Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

'Hanna' has grown up in wilderness. It highlights humanness and animal-ness in humans. She has an interesting take on gender and love.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

Though 'Shahid' was the only true story, what happened in 'Trapped' can happen to anyone. And I am sure there are people like Newton, and there are boys who are naive, sweet, and rowdy, like my part in 'Bareilly'... The humanness is something I loved.

I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human beings that can feed all of our souls. We have our differences, but we're all so similar in our humanness. So those stories about young girls overcoming meant a lot to me and gave me hope.

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