Quotes about Understanding
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
— Albert Ellis
Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.
— Albert Ellis
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
— Albert Schweitzer
When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts
— Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
— Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
— Albert Schweitzer
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
— Lewis Carroll
Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
— Bob Marley
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
— Zig Ziglar