Quotes about Understanding

I pray for him. It's very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.

We cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.

Compassion is the key no matter what the line of work you are in.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.

A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

To sympathise with another is to receive his being into our own, to become one with him, for unselfish love indissolubly unites, and he whose sympathy reaches out to and embraces all humankind and all living creatures has realised his identity and oneness with all, and comprehends the universal Love and Law and Wisdom.

The curtailing of one's desires is the beginning of wisdom; their entire mastery its consumption.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.