Quality! thanks !

The most important quality...

The capacity to ask that question perhaps.

I guess love is a good answer too, but who's to say that the quality of love is not it's absence?

Just as the quality of water sometimes is the measure of your thirst before you drink it.

Also, love is not wisdom, though wisdom advocates love. Animals love, but they do not have the wisdom to understand it and ask your question.

thanks!
cyracuz:
thank you for your answering my question!

To me, the most important quality in life is being honest with yourself.

Many hundreds of years ago, William Shakespeare, one of the most famous of western writers, wrote this:



The word "canst" is old fashioned, and is not used any more.

If I may change the word 'quality' to core value - that which we hold most valuable - I would say the ability to love, followed closely by the ability to accept differences in others (tolerance).

J_B

I noticed that you wrote "the ability to love" rather than "to be loved". I think the latter is a consequence of the former, and beyond that I just wanted to voice agreement.

tthanks!
thank you for answer my question!