Quotes About Understanding

Dear God! we must explain everything.

O clássico é inevitável, algo que não podemos conhecer apenas de ouvir falar. Mesmo quando não nos identificamos com ele, a experiência de conhecê-lo é válida e serve como referencial até mesmo para o posicionamento contrário.

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? Yes. And people who don't love music and books. And people, John said.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.