Quotes About Understanding

when people know you love and care about them, you can speak difficult truth and they will receive it.

I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

Every time we replace anger with empathy and caring, we help a child become better prepared to make wise decisions.

Anger Short-Circuits Learning

Trying to reason with kids who are emotionally upset is a waste of good air.

Limits can be set much more effectively when we're not fighting with our kids.

Sincere empathy works wonders. Sarcastic empathy backfires every time.

It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts of burden, but, as Helen Flight has pointed out, of what use are table manners to those without tables.

Value your wife by valuing what she says.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.

I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.

Not everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers.

As author Alain de Botton notes, the problem with facts is not that we need more of them, but that we don't know what to do with the ones we have.

Apparently, they missed the second day of Chemistry 101—the day they teach 'covalent' bonds. When

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

I ignored them, mostly because I had no idea what I should say and I didn't want to make the situation worse.

Sarah Jane, do you always have to be the teacher?" she asked and then immediately added, "I already know the answer so you don't have to answer that.

I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.