Quotes About Understanding

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

All people ever say is: THANK YOU (a celebration of life) and PLEASE (an opportunity to make life more wonderful).

Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.

Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.