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, I accept you as someone as imperfect as I am, someone who wants security and acceptance, someone who may be...

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.

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.

You couldn’t stand to see what terrifies warlords.

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

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

I don’t write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don’t. And, I can’t help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It...

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of...

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.

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 be one with ourselves. And to be one with ourselves is to be in joy.Healing is to develop our inner...

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell...

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Don’t question what you don’t understand unless you’re asking questions seeking to understand.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly...

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

… being with people who don’t understand is worse than being alone with her grief.

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation...

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion and understanding. You become more of who you truly are, when you choose compassion and kindness. It must start from...

slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way. Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice...

When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the same thing. For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness BUT I can’t do it. Firstly, replace “I can’t do it” with:I am choosing to remain in the state of...

We don’t have a completely level playing field, in our understanding, from the I.O.C.. We are confident that we will get there, but we are not there.

Home is where ‘I know you’, ‘I accept you’, ‘I forgive you’, and ‘I love you’ are most likely to be heard.

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus’ secret was His ability to see into people’s hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain...

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Peter was so understanding, just like Adam was. They were very understanding of the situation. They know it’s a new era of the NHL. Other teams are doing different things, but other teams don’t have the quality and roots we have.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

We have reached an understanding. The details of the alliance will be worked out soon.

I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I’m sure you will agree,...

The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything…

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child’s eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.

My understanding is they were No. 1; they beat everybody down south the week before. I think it was a great win; our kids did a good job.

I’d like to distribute (the pamphlets) to all those concerned so that their understanding on the abduction issue would be deepened.

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

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein’s theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason,...

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another’s learning.

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

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