Quotes About Understanding

When compassion becomes unconditionally ordinary and familiar for you, you have progressed from knowledge to experience to wisdom.

When you know that you know "how" to do something, you're on your way to mastering it.

Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance.

Our beliefs aren't always as conscious as we think they are. We may very well accept an idea on the surface, but if deep down, we don't really believe it's possible, then our acceptance is just an intellectual process. Because calling upon the placebo effect requires us to truly change our beliefs about ourselves and what's possible for our bodies and our health, we need to understand what beliefs are and where they come from.

We do not even know that we don't even know.

Always, in order to change, we have to come to a new understanding of self and the world so that we can embrace new knowledge and have new experiences. That is what reading this book will do for you. Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven't committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.

cuanto más aprendas sobre el «qué» y el «porqué», más fácil y eficaz se volverá el «cómo».

This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD"2

Love requires Context.

Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.

I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.

No. You can't understand. Because you're reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You're a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when they're usually coming in at the end.

Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.

No you can't understand because you are reading the last chapter of something with out having read the first chapters. Young people always think they are coming into a story at the beginning when they are usually coming in at the end.

It didn't make any logical sense for her to be worried, although Ig knew that worry and logic rarely traveled together.

The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.

Do you like eighties music, Nurse Willowes?" "Can we discuss the oldies another time?" "What? What? The oldies? I've already had a man kicking in my ribs, and now you pull out my heart." "Hey!

He knew, too, from things Vic had not told him, that she missed him and loved him with an intensity perhaps matched only by what she felt for her son.

Se pueden averiguar muchas cosas de alguien cuando le das por culo.

I don't follow," she said. "You and me . . . how 'bout it? Dire Straits?

É uma das coisas boas de o carinha ser surdo. A gente não precisa se preocupar que ele escute as partes realmente horríveis e fique triste.