Quotes About Understanding

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as if they're still oppressed.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

You can never lose a true friend.

Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.