#universal

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#blending #create #culture #educational #effort

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#boy #different #distinction #failing #little

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. ↗

— James Beard

#common #common ground #experience #ground #our

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#fashion #out #soon #universal

...as for unhappy families, star-crossed lovers, and exiled heroes, they are simply universal. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#family

You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal." "I think that's some kind of rule for the universe. ↗

— John Barnes

#comradery #friendship #marti #universal #friendship

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. ↗

— James Gavin

#atheist #christ #christian #fair #gavin

You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#reason #universal-love #love

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. ↗

— John Green

#christianity #islam #religion #suffering #universal