Quotes About Understanding

stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright

A friend is someone who hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight

Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.

If your dog is still needy, give him more of what he needs.

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know.

There's an old Jewish saying: An enemy is someone whose story you do not know. (22)

And Whoever is in charge of all this will walk with us, and will help us to sort out the mysteries and help us to complete the healing. Walls will fall and we will see each other more clearly - all of us, the Mormons and the Catholics and the Jews and the Moslems and the straights and the gays and the women and the men. Confusions will lift like fog lifts from the Golden Gate Bridge on a good summer day, and we will each see our next step and will take it.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No one ever does notice the lives of others unless they affect their own lives, Sofia reflected.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.

perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.

Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose.

Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures.

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no "they lived happily ever after," but it's more like "they worked happily ever after.

Picture your ideal love relationship. Does it involve perfect compatibility—no disagreements, no compromises, no hard work? Please think again. In every relationship, issues arise. Try to see them from a growth mindset: Problems can be a vehicle for developing greater understanding and intimacy. Allow your partner to air his or her differences, listen carefully, and discuss them in a patient and caring manner. You may be surprised

There is a French expression: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." To understand all is to forgive all.