“Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.”

— Ela Bhatt

Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

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founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (… 1933

Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist

Source: Om Malik, Interview with Brunello Cucinelli http://pi.co/brunello-cucinelli-2/ 2015/04/27

“I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.”

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

On his ambitions as a youth, in an Academy of Achievement interview (28 October 2000) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gor0int-1
1990s

“We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.”

Matthieu Ricard (1946) French writer and Buddhist monk

The Quantum and the Lotus, translated by Ian Monk (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001), p. 264 https://books.google.it/books?id=F-QpZMJ6b7QC&pg=PA264.

“Something in all human beings makes them want to do the right thing. Not that this desire always prevails; oftentimes it is overcome and they turn towards evil. But some power is constantly calling them back. Ever there comes a resistance to wrongdoing. When bad conditions begun to accumulate, when the forces of darkness become prevalent, always they are ultimately doomed to fail, as the better angels of human nature are roused to resistance.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

1920s, Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Psychics exploit the human being's natural desire that longs for something higher than themselves.”

Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate

TV appearances

“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.

To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”

Brian L. Weiss

Source: Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.”

Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist

As quoted in The World of the Atom (1966) by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, p. 741

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, in The Phenomenon of Man [Le Phénomène Humain] (1955); Covey quotes this in Living the 7 Habits : Stories of Courage and Inspiration (2000), p. 47
Variant: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
A paraphrase of De Chardin's statement which has also become misattributed to Covey.
Misattributed
Variant: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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