Quotes about Understanding

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.