Quotes about Understanding

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

A lot of my chosen family is black and I say that unabashedly. For anyone who doesn't understand that, they just don't understand me and my generation because especially in the LGBT community, the concept of chosen family is so important and it's a survival tactic.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.