Paulo Coelho Quotes

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

I believe in humans.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.