Understanding Quotes - Page 3

There are things known - things experienced, felt, and understood - that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

If you love someone let them know, if you hate someone learn to love them.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices

& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

True love is born from understanding.

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.