Quotes about Understanding

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly looks down on all creatures with a beneficence that they are too busy apologizing for their unworthiness and performing their good works and assuring Heaven of their unfailing devotion to notice.

Theology is the study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.

To love your neighbor is to see your neighbor. To see somebody, really to see somebody, you have to love somebody.

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.

As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.