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understandings

«Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.»
«Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.»
«Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third»
«A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them»
«Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ''If I had my life to live over again. ''Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.»
«Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.»
«I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.»
«The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs»
«Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.»
«Those who have the largest hearts, have the soundest understandings; and he is the truest philosopher who can forget himself.»

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