What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Football is a sad game.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

We are all alike, on the inside.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.