Quotes About Understanding

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Look from the blind man's eye.... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?

If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

The sanest thing in this world is love.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.