Quotes About Understanding

The engineer said his solution is to orient himself "as a comrade inside of the walls, therefore bypassing the confrontation." He avoids the asshole's wrath by expressing empathy and finding common ground—shared interests such as hobbies, sports, or politics

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without brain.

Stress can bring out your unresolved issues. Like many silent sons, you may be at a low boiling point but not realize it. When stress occurs, your reactions are extreme and you don't understand why.

Family life demands emotional doseness. For many silent sons emotional closeness is stressful, even if they want it more than anything else.

The silent treatment can be very frustrating to us, not to mention the effect it has on others. Most of us know when we are doing it; few of us know how to stop it. I buried my feelings for years, but if a feeling is strong enough it mill eventually surface. My family has paid the price.

Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." – John 13:7

When we view things horizontally, we feel confusion; but when we see things vertically, life makes sense—including the direction of history. Everything changes when we interpret events below with wisdom from above and see things as the Lord does in heaven.

Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us? – Luke 24:32

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

Nothing beats having the Word of God stored away in the chambers of the mind.

Romans 12:18 If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone.

Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You. – John 21:17

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105

Now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. – 1 Corinthians 13:12

Not now, but in the coming years, It may be in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears, And there, some time, we'll understand. We'll catch the broken thread again, And finish what we here began; Heav'n will the mysteries explain, And then, ah then, we'll understand. God knows the way, He holds the key, He guides us with unerring hand; Some time with tearless eyes we'll see; Yes, there, up there, we'll understand.

During the second call, I explained that since we were both (meaning the buyer and me) busy people, I thought it would save a lot of time if he could answer a few quick questions over the phone. That way, I explained, I could avoid sending him properties that did not fall within his guidelines.

Sentir la necesidad de convencer a los demás de que uno tiene razón es algo que procede de la religión. Yo simplemente me contento con saber que tengo razón, aunque los demás no lo sepan.

La apreciaba por lo que era, no por lo que parecía.

There is no debt between people who are in love; there is only total forgiveness, and going forward.

They formed what they called the "wall of peace.

wondering if he could hear him from the other side. Jess

Everyone uses their own dictionary.

Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly.