Quotes About Understanding

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

What's the will of God for my life? You don't need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

O be wise, what can I say more?

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

We have to start treating each other as if we are treating ourselves living another life.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.