“Love and the gracious heart are a single thing…
one can no more be without the other
than the reasoning mind without its reason.”

“Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?”

T. H. White book The Book of Merlyn

“The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.”

Lennox Lewis (1965) British-Canadian boxer

“Everything depends on the mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It is said, "The aspirant may have received the grace of the guru, the Lord and the Vaishnavas; but he comes to grief without the grace of 'one' ". That 'one' is the mind. The mind of the aspirant should be gracious to him.”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.”

Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) German philosopher

“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“To enjoy—to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer