Basic Quotes

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“25. Whenever two human beings spend time together, sooner or later they will probably irritate one another. This is true of best friends, married couples, parents and children, or teachers and students. The question is: How do they respond when friction occurs? There are four basic ways they can react:

• They can internalize the anger and send it downward into a memory bank that never forgets. This creates great pressure within and can even result in disease and other problems.
• They can pout and be rude without discussing the issues. This further irritates the other person and leaves him or her to draw his or her own conclusions about what the problem may be.
• They can blow up and try to hurt the other person. This causes the death of friendships, marriages, homes, and businesses.
• Or they can talk to one another about their feelings, being very careful not to attack the dignity and worth of the other person. This approach often leads to permanent and healthy relationships.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.”
― Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyone, at the same time. And at the same time no-one can't be someone, but anyone can be one, and also anyone can be a no-one. To sum up - everyone is someone, and any-one becomes a no-one if you divide the one part long enough by every part of every-one, so in conclusion, I have no idea what I’m talking about, basically.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“How many men are on the football field at a time?” he
asked us.
Eleven on a team, we answered. So that makes twentytwo.
“And how many people are touching the football at any
given time?”
One of them.
“Right!” he said. “So we’re going to work on what those
other twenty-one guys are doing.”
Fundamentals. That was a great gift Coach Graham gave
us. Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. As a college
professor, I’ve seen this as one lesson so many kids ignore, always to their detriment: You’ve got to get the fundamentals
down, because otherwise the fancy stuff is not going to work.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“According to history, quite a few times simple man turned out to be the significant man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Chèvre cheesecake with honey-rosemary poached pears and pistachio sablé crust. Who do I think I am? I'm not chèvre and rosemary. I'm chocolate chip cookies. I'm butterscotch pudding. I'm brownies. I'm basic.”
― Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love à la Mode

“This idea is so basic that when I first thought of it, I felt very brilliant, and then I wondered if I was an idiot.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Whether you're a bride or a birthday boy, your options are much the same. Cake comes in chocolate, yellow, or white. Frosting comes in chocolate or vanilla buttercream, or you can opt for whipped cream. Fillings are either chocolate or vanilla custard, fresh bananas, or strawberries or raspberries in season. For birthday cakes, you can have either flowers or balloons in your choice of colors. For wedding cakes, you can add either fondant or marzipan covering, or either smooth or basket-weave buttercream, in white or ivory, with either pearl-like dots or ribbony swags made of frosting, and fondant faux flowers are extra.”
― Stacey Ballis, Wedding Girl

“Considering family togetherness seems promising for understanding hygge in its most basic form. When we refer to hygge, we are using the concept of home and family to think with. -Jeppe Trolle Linnet”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Ah yes, the bare basics of being a parent: just don't disown your kids and want them to go to Hell.”
― Charleigh Frederick, Demon Scout

“Just because something is basic or simple does not mean that it isn’t immensely powerful.”
― Mat Auryn, Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation

“The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Love is basic of success.”
― Saadi Ahmed

“The late-afternoon light was thick and orange and she passed four different couples taking photos of themselves on the same cobblestoned block, all their loves endlessly recorded and reviewed, ever and ever, a little archive of two.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“Hygge helps us to communicate what it's like to be human; it is part of a global vocabulary that speaks to our humanity and addresses our basic human need to belong.
It's an old word for a new language that we are beginning to explore in order to share values common to us all.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“Participants experience a 'social intimacy' and a basic 'trust' in the inclusiveness and good intentions of the other people present. Hygge cannot be achieved if there is disagreement and conflict in the group or if there is a sense of mistrust between people. Furthermore, situations characterised by hygge eschew graveness and seriousness. -Carsten Levisen”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“It's curious that life came into existence with its most basic attribute of protecting itself.”
― Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“What keeps you from giving now? Isn't the poor person there? Aren't your own warehouses full? Isn't the reward promised? The command is clear: the hungry person is dying now, the naked person is freezing now, the person in debt is beaten now-and you want to wait until tomorrow? "I'm not doing any harm," you say. "I just want to keep what I own, that's all." You own! You are like someone who sits down in a theater and keeps everyone else away, saying that what is there for everyone's use is your own...If everyone took only what they needed and gave the rest to those in need, there would be no such thing as rich and poor. After all, didn't you come into life naked, and won't you return naked to the earth?
The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry person; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the person who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the person with no shoes; the money which you put in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help. —Basil, fourth century.”
― Thomas O'Gorman, Advent Sourcebook

“In the early days of COVID-19, I stocked the home up knowing that basic supplies would run out when the masses realized how bad it was.”
― Steven Magee

“We live in a society where a basic income is necessary to live, but Disability and Workers Compensation routinely deny it to disabled workers.”
― Steven Magee

“Radio music is murder”
― Me lol

“Whatcha doin' Frank, fishin'? Nope, just drowning worms”
― Andrew Barger

“Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.”
― Billy Corgan