Quotes About Understanding

met a kid who was cuffed to the door handle of a police car outside the gig. He was there early to catch soundcheck and the cop busted him drinking a beer in the parking lot. I hung out with the guy and gave him some water. It was strange to be talking with this guy who was standing in the sun tied to a car. I guess the pig figured he was teaching him a lesson. That taught me plenty.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after.

By ignorance the truth is known.

Never allow your heart to question God's love. Settle it on the front end of your quest to know Him and experience Him: He loves you. Every dealing He has with you is an expression of His love for you. God would not be God if He expressed Himself in any way other than perfect love! What you believe about God's love for you will be reflected in how you relate to Him. If you really believe God is love, you will also accept that His will is always best.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Happy those early days, when IShin'd in my angel-infancy!Before I understood this placeAppointed for my second race.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection was never wasted.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

True Tenacity is in the Uncovering of the Purpose of Existence Rather than in the Pursuit of Existence.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters