Quotes About Understanding

The final need is unconditional love. This is a difficult concept for many to understand. I discuss this need further in Chapter 15.

we are not our feelings.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds

A man might spend a lifetime reading spiritual books and studying the writings of the great mystics. He might feel that he had penetrated the secrets of the heavens and the earth, but unless this knowledge was incorporated into his very nature and transformed him, it was sterile. I began to suspect that a simple man of faith, praying to God with little understanding but with a full heart, might be worth more than the most learned student of the spiritual sciences.

God gave to Adam and to his descendants the gift of intelligence, asking in return, not for blind praise, but for a lucid and joyful understanding of the nature of all things and their source.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Love is letting him win even though you know you could slaughter him.

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

You mean you're going to send the same form letter to the Great Pumpkin, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny?" "Why not? These guys get so much mail they can't possibly tell the difference... I bet they don't even read the letters themselves! How could they?! The trouble with you, Charlie Brown, is you don't understand how these big organizations work!

Brothers and sisters should never be in the same family.

Hello, Sally? Let me talk to Chuck, will you?" "I think he's lost in the woods." "I know what you mean, but let me talk to him, will you?

Cosa succede, Patty? Stai piangendo… Una lacrima non è piangere.