Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can’t stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one’s shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the...

It’s easy to love those we like, but what about those we don’t, and why would we anyways? There may be someone who doesn’t like us, yet they’re accepting of us, unconditionally loving us.Love means,...

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

The key to good listening isn’t technique, it’s desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we’ll never listen well.

If you love people, you have no desire to judge them.

I think true happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

By the time we leave here, we must all have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to enable us to contain a virus with pandemic potential.

You couldn’t stand to see what terrifies warlords.

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am...

That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

They didn’t understand what they were doing.I’m afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from...

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can’t rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded...

One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing...

Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with life.Healing is pure love. Love is what creates healing. Spiritual healing is to...

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself...

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.

Maybe my naivety at not understanding how tough it is is a good thing, because so many golfers see it as mecca,

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

This team is capable of playing multiple styles. Early in the year it was understanding how hard they had to play. These kids are very unselfish and play smart. Now we’ve gotta be able to...

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

My father nodded. His nod was for me. Different. But not different at all. My father understood. Maybe he had known. Maybe he hadn’t. It didn’t matter anymore. He understood. I knew he understood, just...

Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to...

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice...

It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying...

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist’s mission is to convert; a theological philosopher’s mission is to build an understanding...

Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that...

When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another.

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you...

Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y quiero que me comprendan. Hasta cierto punto, pienso que es inevitable que el resto de la...

The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for the appreciator must see the movement, wake to the echo which was started...

It is my understanding that the housing in Middletown is privately owned and managed. It is not owned or managed by the state of Rhode Island.

Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand.

And we want to understand them better.