“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie

“Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.” – Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.” – H. P. Blavatsky

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – William James

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.” – Xunzi

“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Somebody does somethin’ stupid, that’s human. They don’t stop when they see it’s wrong, that’s a fool.” – Elvis Presley

“In order to exist, man must rebel.” – Albert Camus

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.” – Sydney J. Harris

“Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.” – Christian Friedrich Hebbel

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” – William James

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” – John Maynard Keynes

“We obey people we don’t trust, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like, using money we don’t have, for gratifications that don’t last, killing animals we don’t hate, for pleasures that don’t satisfy, dreaming of a life we don’t deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn’t exist, we are a stupid species.” – Unknown

I hope these quotes inspire you to reflect on human nature!