Quotes About Understanding

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

the study of diversity is essential for understanding how and why America became what Walt Whitman called a "teeming nation of nations.

You knew you couldn't reason with him. Not in the state he'd created for himself.

Flexibility, negotiation, and compromise are at the heart of loving relationships.

This is the courageous thing to do: to try to reach the other side before it's too late.

Giving someone the truth when they don't want it is a sort of emotional violence.

To reach truth that one cannot be argued out of is to escape from the linguistically expressible to the ineffable. Only the ineffable—what is not describable at all—cannot be described differently.

I was thinking about how people prejudge other people. That's the same as prejudice, right?

L'acte le plus révolutionnaire est une vision claire du monde tel qu'il est réellement

Cuanto más te acercas a lo esencial, menos puedes nombrarlo.

El amor consiste en encontrar a alguien con quien compartir tus rarezas.

La #Intimidad: no tener muy claro donde acabas tú y empieza el otro.

I believe there is only one race - The Human Race.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

each person's truth is of equal value. No one gets to speak for anyone else or dismiss an opinion just because it's not shared by the people who have the most power.

we often make the mistake of believing that if a boy doesn't come to us with problems, then he doesn't have them.

Abstractions that we unwittingly treat as physical reality tend to block us from seeing the way things are, and therefore reduce our power to accomplish what we say we want.

Both parents turned toward their son and waited. The boy said nothing. "You see?" said his father, and went on to elaborate the image; the boy had closeted himself, and the father wanted more of something—more information, more contact.

Being present to the way things are is not the same as accepting things as they are

I began to write a different narrative: that my husband did indeed know me and love me, and was offering me the best he had to give. Then when I talked with him, I spoke from within the framework of the A, to someone I had defined as able and willing to hear me. As long as I practiced in this manner, I found that virtually all the conversations we had were productive in a way I had never before imagined they could be. A

WHEN ONE PERSON peels away layers of opinion, entitlement, pride, and inflated self-description, others instantly feel the connection.

Life is sweet. . . Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.