James Stephens Quotes

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

The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

The wise are wise only because they love.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We can only learn to love by loving.

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

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

There are many doors to the heart.

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

At the heart of all things is love.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.