Quote what does it mean to be human

Or the college kid who deals drugs out of his dorm room so that he'll have cash to finance his spring break? Who should we fear?

The kid in the 'hood who joined a gang and now carries a gun for security, because his neighborhood is frightening and unsafe? Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel?

Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives with varying degrees of justification. Screwing up-failing to live by one's highest ideals and values-is part of what makes us human. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.

But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me. Stamper, Ternary. We have minds. We make our own choices and live by them. We shape our own lives with how we behave towards others.

It is good for people to be expert at brain surgery. But if you are not a brain surgeon, you are no less human. Or a different sort of analogy: it is good for human beings to have language, but one is no less human if one's language is French rather than Mandarin Chinese, or Sign rather than English. Or yet another: a child, once she exists, is a unique good, but prior to coming into being, she was not necessary.

So marriage and be good without being needful; although good, it is not a 'manner of life' that all people should enter. And even though not all people need marry, that does not make it a bad thing.

Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Without them, humanity cannot survive. It is the consequence of humanity. World belongs to humanity. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that's what's important.

We listen with more than our ears. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it. All you have to do is think and they'll grow. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.