Quotes About Understanding

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

When you judge someone on their appearance or first words, you miss the opportunity to understand another human being.

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

To perceive is to suffer.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.