Quotes About Understanding

Mais Drogo ignorait ce qu'était le temps.

Only his step awoke her – not that it was loud, for Giovanni went on tiptoe. There was no special reason for it, except that he was her son.

deu-se conta de que os homens, ainda que possam se querer bem, permanecem sempre distantes;

Evil at bottom is the refusal to recognize the reality of others, to refuse to restrain ourselves, so that another does not have room to live and develop freely.

But faith, as we pointed out, is not primarily the acceptance of biblical beliefs because they have been revealed outside of and overriding human reason and good sense, and so in that sense are imposed on us without proper understanding.

spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

Life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe.

These conclusions, however, can only be understood when we know what we mean by reality and have a clear line of demarcation between the subjective and the objective. Any one who is trained in philosophical method knows that this is asking a good deal.

Jelkes came to the conclusion that Mona knew exactly what she was doing, and that it was not the slightest use to speak to her.

No argument in the world is ever resolved. Resolving would suggest some liquid in which arguments could be immersed, perhaps love. But it must be love enough.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

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You must: Learn to understand what motivates the people you want to influence. Become an expert at communication. Know how to make people like you. Learn how to inspire people.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

And I understand now, maybe not completely, but more, that in times of overwhelming joy, immobile sadness, hysterical laughter, absolute fear, and sometimes just perfect quiet there is Life. Real Life. And it really is that simple. I take my gift now. I go live.

He said he was always looking for a new color. He used to call me the new color. He said he wouldn't wanna see a spaceship without me. He always talked in riddles, but I think I know what he meant, and I don't think anyone can ever say anything that will mean as much to me.

Life, the permission to know death.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.

Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all...

In the resurrection, when we come up looking backward at each other, I shall know you only of all that company.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough - you have to know how.

To be utterly innocent would be to be utterly unknown, particularly to oneself.

Any man can look upon the head in death, but no man can look upon the feet.