Our Basic Quotes
61 quotes by 54 authors
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It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to…
— Jane McGonigal
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Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.
— Nelson Mandela
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Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling…
— Jessica Ortner
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Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness…
— Pema Chodron
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Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves,…
— Wayne Dyer
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
— Dalai Lama
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We are here to learn lessons and our birth chart tells us what our lessons are, what type of energy we possess in the first…
— Stephen Arroyo
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More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have…
— Dalai Lama
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Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut…
— Alan Watts
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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
— Aretha Franklin
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It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live…
— Lyman Spitzer
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The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the…
— Thomas Berry
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While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except…
— Shakti Gawain
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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
— Joko Beck
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As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of…
— Al Gore
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I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Who Wrote These Our Basic Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 61 Our Basic Quotes, led by these top contributors: