David Small Quotes

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

We must take our friends as they are.

Everybody's funny if you love them.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

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

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

I realize you can't please everyone.

Love your enemies.

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.

You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will. Be grateful.