Quotes About Understanding

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign, less investment in the film at the other end, which is... fine. I get it.

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is. But at the same time, I want my white sisters and brothers to understand that when we talk about income and wealth inequality, that disproportionately African Americans suffer a little more.

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

We like to say we would never want anyone we care about to suffer. But is it because it's we who cannot see them in pain?

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

I've suffered a little bit with depression in the past and I also have friends who have gone through depression.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.