Quotes About Understanding

Sharon and Kelly Osbourne. I love the way they put aside ther difference and united for a commom purpose: trying to figure out what the hell Ozzy was saying.

Chances are no one is speaking to you in some secret code that can only be cracked by an enigma machine.

Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

Motherhood is about raising—and celebrating—the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

My lady,' said the servant girl, 'are those who sit at the table great if they are enslaved to their own selfish needs and wishes? Are those who serve the table less if they are free to love? The giver of love receives. The one who understands is understood. The one who consoles receives consolation...' That day the servant was set free for saying strong things gently and gentle things strongly.

Male-female relationships, as Jane Austen was always pointing out, could be very complicated.

as he'd grumbled, punctuation counted. And when he was finished, although she wasn't entirely prepared to give in, she hadn't been able to deny that he had a point.

A sated man cannot understand a starving one

Los pequeños detalles muestran la extensión de lo que no sabes

Ceux qui disent que le S est un serpent ont un problème avec leur S...

The boundaries between fear and other emotions are not clear-cut. How does fear differ from dread, consternation or surprise? Anger, disgust, hatred and horror all contain elements of fear. Jealousy may be understood as fear of losing one's partner; guilt may be fear of God's punishment; shame may be fear of humiliation. I history of fear would be rendered meaningless if all negative emotional states were classified as 'really' being fear states.

What I lacked in my mother, I'd found in my women friends.

Let's play our 'benefit of the doubt' game, shall we?" This was a game that I invented when she was little. The goal was to remind ourselves not to take things personally, to extend grace to others by recognizing that we don't know what's happening in their lives. What started as a way to teach empathy wound up being a wonderful tool for me.

Whenever people were nasty, mean or downright rude, I returned to our "benefit of the doubt" game and imagined all the extenuating circumstances in their lives that might excuse their behavior.

of the most powerful aspects of friendship is the alleviation of loneliness. When another person indicates that they understand us, that we are no longer alone, there's an expansion of joy in our chests, a feeling like no other. All of us live in solitary confinement, waiting for a friend to appear and set us free.

EveLynn is on the autism spectrum, a person with Asperger's Syndrome, she's not good with customers.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

These people could not be bailed out, of course, because the free market was free. Of course, at times of financial crisis the Government did, in fact, bail out the major institutions of the free market, but this did not in any way undermine the fundamental notion that the market must be free and this bailing out could, of course, not be extended to individuals within the free market. Some people are, alas, not intellectually capable of understanding arguments about such complex things.

And if I have hoped for more it is only the whole of loneliness swept away by understanding from "Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

We only trust people we know,' says Martha Tennison...'If you're struggling to trust God, it may be because you don't really know God.

I didn't need to control her…Hell, I just wanted to sit back and watch her, try to figure out what made her tick and hold on for the ride.