Quotes About Understanding

I didn't know the real reason that she was crying. I was just carried away by the feeling of her in my arms, trembling and warm.

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.''I'm pretty good at being me, ' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice--I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

If you appreciate, you will appreciate.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.