Quotes About Understanding

What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!

Eine jede Hoffnung ist ohne Sinn. Kein Mensch verfalle auf die Idee, auf die Erfüllung seiner Träume zu sinnen. Vielmehr soll er den Irrsinn des Hoffens begreifen. Hat er ihn begriffen, darf er hoffen. Wenn er dann noch träumen kann, hat sein Leben Sinn.

In quel momento un'ombra di malinconia le passò sul volto. O ce lo stiamo inventando? Non riusciamo a capire - questo è certo - com'è che questi due esseri non abbiano potuto incontrarsi. Ma il lettore voglia credere, con noi, che un'ombra di malinconia passò davvero per un attimo sul volto di Elsbeth.

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

Big egos have little ears.

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

Imagínate un mundo en el que sólo hay luz. Si nunca has experimentado la oscuridad, ¿cómo podrías comprender y apreciar la luz? Es el contraste entre luz y oscuridad lo que lleva a un conocimiento más profundo.

Y al crearte a ti mismo en un nuevo lugar, llegas a conocerte de un modo que no hubiera sido posible si no hubieras dejado tu Hogar.

Consider misunderstood loss as a derailment. When you understand impermanence, when you understand that change is truly the only constant in a space-time continuum, then you understand that such losses come and go.

Your greatest challenges are never about what other people do, but rather about how you respond. They are about whether you can accept, understand, and thus rise above the emotions that others' actions cause inside you. Spiritual growth is not about you changing the world; it is about going within and changing yourself.

It is the absence of something that best teaches its value and meaning.

Only by courageously embracing darkness can we understand and fully appreciate the light.

In the connected world, customers are no longer just a number or account; they are unique human beings with a distinct set of needs.

The emptiness of life is, at times, deafening. I think the thought of my existence is a pain because I feel at some times that I do not understand it, and at other times, I don't think there is anything to understand.

Sanity is a matter of consensus.

Your pain pained me.

The United States of America is one of the most studied but least understood nations in the contemporary world.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

This linguistic work, however, is not all that they do. They also function in intentionality: the syntax of language is related to the way things can present themselves to us, to the way we can intend and articulate them.

Philosophy is the art of making distinctions.

Agreed to differ.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each others worth.

There are three groups of people with respect to empowerment: Those who get it. Those who really want to get it. Those who probably will never get it.