Quotes about Understanding

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose. But Americans, I think, have a great advantage. To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit — by shared commitments to common ideals.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough

I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Oh, I love my Calcutta clients! They understand good-quality stones and they want good-quality jewelry, be it colored stones or diamonds or good workmanship.

Jesus didn't hold people accountable; He just held them close - because it works better.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.