Basis Quotes

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

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Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Physical fitness is not only one of
the most important keys to a healthy body,
it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F. Kennedy

BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler

The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford

Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

One may say the eternal mystery of the world
is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein

The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II

It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie