How to Human Quotes

“I didn’t go to seminary. I mean, the liberal arts school I attended academically expelled me! Thankfully, we don’t need any sort of education to understand how simple loving others and loving God is. So, go. Grab your blow-up Santa and put it in your front yard in July if it will help someone else feel more loved. Go. Take some cookies to your neighbor for no reason other than knowing that they, like most of us, probably need a reason to smile today. Pay for the person’s groceries or Starbucks order behind you. Compliment someone’s shoes while taking a walk. What can you do today that will make someone feel loved? It’s not going to be as complicated as you think. I promise.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us

“The collective stress of the Covid-19 pandemic mixed with racial unrest across the country, tied up with a divisive presidential election, all came together and created a perfect storm. This storm blew many of us off course—even if by one degree, it was enough.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us

“I think that the world has a way of knocking us off course. Somehow we get convinced that we need to change, pretend, or become somebody other than our original selves, even if the alteration is subtle and small and changes us by only one degree.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us

“If you draw a straight line from the tip of a ship and it continues—going straight—for one thousand miles, it will end up in the place to which it is pointing. But if that boat moves by only one tiny degree, for a few days of travel it may seem like that the ship is still heading to the original target. However, that one degree of change will eventually mean that the ship misses the original destination by more than sixteen miles on a 960-mile journey. That simple one-degree adjustment doesn’t seem like a big deal, day after day, but as those days slowly add up over weeks, you will arrive at a completely different destination than you originally planned.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us

“the point of going after them is to show them true compassion, and that kind of compassion is what has been missing in our world in recent years. If we want to get back to being human, we must recover our compassion.”
― Carlos Whittaker, How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us