Quotes About Understanding

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a penciling.

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.