#understanding

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#understanding-others #love

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ↗

— Edward Albert

#fear #just #plus #prayers #understanding

He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the greatest pain, the greatest happiness is born: the hope that we too will one day be understood, strangers will accept our words, our lives, as if they were their own. ↗

— Dezső Kosztolányi

#understanding #life

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. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#reading #understanding #wicked #words #change

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#first #funds #given #god #insist

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ↗

— George Savile

#difficulty #must #prince #trusting #undergo

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery. ↗

— Betty Ford

#almost #been #family #focused #last

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ↗

— Xi Zhi

#leads #skepticism #small #understanding

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding. ↗

— Willie Dixon

#expressed #facts #feeling #inspiration #life

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#sword #truth #understanding #your