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Quotes About Understanding

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
~ Eddie Myers
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
~ Willie Nelson
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
~ Colman McCarthy
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
~ Alice Walker
Peace and love, peace and love!
~ Ringo Starr
Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.
~ Nhat Hanh
The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
~ Sean Lennon
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
~ Sengcan
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
~ Chief Joseph
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
~ Barack Obama
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
~ Peace Pilgrim
There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
~ Peace Pilgrim
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
~ Nhat Hanh
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
~ Desmond Tutu
There is no question- love is the answer
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
~ Booker T. Washington
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
~ Gautama Buddha
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
~ Moliere
We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
~ Chuck Norris