Quotes about Understanding

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Love is a two way street.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.