Love and Understanding Quotes

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

When women love, they forgive everything...

I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me 'Person of the Week,' and like I told her, 'Diane, I love my daughter.' I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.

I came out to my mom at the age of 14. She didn't understand it at first, but she's been very supportive since.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

We don't sulk with everybody. We limit our sulks to a very particular person: the person who's supposed to love us and understand us. And we make this equation that if you love me, you're supposed to understand me even if I don't explain what's wrong.

I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.

'Little Baby' is a beautiful film about father and daughter relationship which talks of generation gap.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

When will the proud priest of Rome grant indulgences to mankind to live in peace and charity, as he now does to fight and slay one another?

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Real spiritual journey in life is the discovery of self. I think once you take all the religious bullshit away from Jesus Christ, it's saying it's about this journey of discovering who you are, and what's really important in life is simply love. That the journey of civilization, the journey of understanding, is forgiveness, is empathy. And that's what humanity is striving for.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?