Quotes about Understanding

Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Women are emotional creatures. You have to listen to them to figure out what they are saying. Show your wife steadfast loyalty.

Romanticism is a philosophy of intuitive agreement. In real love, there is no need tiresomely to articulate or spell things out. When two people belong together, there is simply — at long last — a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.

Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.