Quotes About Understanding

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

God can only send the greater light when men's hearts are able to bear it.

The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.

Immerse yourself in the customer's world and get to know their struggles and triumphs inside out.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

the soul of conversation is sympathy

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.