Quotes about Understanding

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I spoke up about my difficulties with anxiety and depression to try to help change people's view of those problems and improve understanding. You need to be brave about doing it because you know you'll get negative stuff aimed at you by ignorant people, and I did, but it's all about toughening up and rising above that. It was worth it.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Bullying is a topic that's been close to my heart for a while.

The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.

Abraham Lincoln was often criticized for trying to make friends with his enemies instead of trying to get rid of them. He replied, "Isn't that what I'm doing when I make an enemy a friend?