Understanding Love Quotes

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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  All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Life, Empathy

  Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.685, Open Road Media

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

  John Steinbeck

  Be Kind, Travels With Charley, Understanding And Love

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.5, Penguin

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  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

  Ann Landers

  Loyalty, Love Is, Mutual Benefit

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

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• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  Ursula Goodenough

  Environmental, End Of The World, Changing Environment

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• True love is born from understanding.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhism, Love Is, Understanding

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• Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Men, Knowing

  Journal entry in 1938. Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw to "Of Mice and Men", p. VII, 1994.

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• Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hands, Hunger For Love

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Being Yourself, Fall

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• Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

  U Thant

  Understanding, Tolerance, Planets

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• There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Understanding, May

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.182, CLC Publications

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• I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

  Alicia Keys

  Ideas, Understanding, Attention

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine (PHOTOS)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Vegetarianism, Missing

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• The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.

  Toni Packer

  Love, Pain, Self

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• A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Sweet, Self

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• Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid," I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.

  James Patterson

  Stupid, Wings, Understanding

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.15, Random House

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• My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

  Rula Jebreal

  Children, Father, Taught Us

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Hands, People, Understanding

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• To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Knowledge, Science, Expression

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University”

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