Quotes About Understanding

Proust's suspicion of doctors... in an awkward position...for they are people who profess to understand the workings of the body, even though their knowledge has not primarily emerged from any pain in their own body.

Good listeners are no less rare or important than good communicators. Here, too, an unusual degree of confidence is the key -- a capacity not to be thrown off course by, or buckle under the weight of, information that may deeply challenge certain settled assumptions. Good listeners are unfussy about the chaos which others may for a time create in their minds; they've been there before and know that everything can eventually be set back in its place.

Jesus sleeping in his mother's arms subliminally reinforce his counsel that we should learn to regard all our fellow human beings as if they were children.

quienes se burlan de la amistad [...] bien pueden ser los mejores amigos del mundo», quizá porque quienes lo hacen abordan ese vínculo con expectativas más realistas que el resto.

nuestra forma de hablar está, en definitiva, vinculada a nuestra forma de sentir, ya que la manera en que describimos el mundo tiene que reflejar a ciertos niveles cómo lo experimentamos.

A genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

BulunduÄŸu ortamda defalarca telaffuz edilmiÅŸ bir sözcüÄŸü duymayan, t?pk? ancak anlam?n? öÄŸrendikten sonra o sözcüÄŸü duymaya baÅŸlayan birine benzeriz.

as we have seen, what

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

The epitome of empathy is said to be the capacity to look at the world through another's eyes. Though our glance on the planet is largely distorted by our crooked perspectives, we may nevertheless, with luck or agility, accede to a privileged glimpse of the view from another's shoes - and in the process claim to have been able, for a moment at least, to surmount our relativity.

Love is a trap and only reveals itself to us by making us suffer.

disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).

Pronouncing a lover "perfect" can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.

A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Without patience for negotiation, there is bitterness: anger that has forgotten where it came from.

we will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.

Ideal ar fi ca arta s? ne dea r?spunsurile pe care nu le primim de la oameni.

Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.

Madame Verdurin might come to understand the mechanisms by which people are excluded from social circles; she could learn to make light of her frustration, confess to it directly, even throw out a teasing remark to Swann asking him to return with a signed menu, and in the process might become so charming that an invitation to the Élysée would make its way to her after all.

The terms avoidant and anxious are hardly typical in a love story, but if Romantic is taken to mean "helpful to the progress of love," then they turn out to be among the most romantic words Kirsten and Rabih will ever stumble upon, for they enable them to grasp patterns that have been destructively at work between them every day of their married lives.

It is the task of philosophy to let you down gently.