Quotes About Understanding

She wasn't given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.

How you feeling now, fellow?" he asked. "Good," I said. "Take care of yourself," he said. "This still don't have to be our picnic." "It looks like it was," I said. "Yeah," he agreed, "but it ain't.

The empathy we have is founded on the fact that God has put this person in my life. In other word, if this is true this allows me to be present to all kinds of people who I do not like.

Consecrated life is an icon of the whole Christian life, and to live it fully and effectively and joyously one must understand that one is rich.

Everybody heard the gospel in their own language: you have a place.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

As we begin to acknowledge our own inner shadow, we become more tolerant of the shadow in others.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Je problematischer der Charakter, desto problemloser erscheint ihm die Welt.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

Friendships across the world make near neighbours of far horizons.

No one alone can attain truth.

Whenever someone does you a wrong or speaks ill of you, remember that he is doing what he thinks is proper. He can't possibly be guided by what appears right to you, but only by what appears right to him. So if he sees things wrongly, he is the one who is hurt, because he is the one who has been deceived. . . . Starting from this reasoning, you will be mild toward whoever insults you. Say each time, "So it seemed to him." Epictetus, Enchiridion

You ask what the finest life span would be? To live until you reach wisdom.

He explained what he saw in her eyes, which was not sadness or disappointment but understanding. Sympathy, he said, and wit. At some level sympathy implied knowledge and knowledge had a melancholy aspect. He believed that was universally true, no exceptions. When you knew too much you felt a natural distress but that was something quite different from fundamental personal sadness, sadness as a trait, like blue eyes. Her distress was not temperamental but intellectual.

You could never know what transpired beneath another's skin.

It appears that so-called common sense is a most uncommon commodity nowadays.

to ask powerful Why questions. To do so, we must: •  Step back. •  Notice what others miss. •  Challenge assumptions (including our own). •  Gain a deeper understanding of the situation or problem at hand, through contextual inquiry. •  Question the questions we're asking. •  Take ownership of a particular question. While a fairly straightforward process, it begins by moving backward.

What do you want to say? Why does it need to be said

Part of the value in asking naïve questions, Bennett says, is that it forces people to explain things simply, which can help bring clarity to an otherwise complex issue. "If I just keep saying, 'I don't get it, can you tell me why once more?,' it forces people to synthesize and simplify—to strip away the irrelevances and get to the core idea.

or flashlights that, in the words of Dan Rothstein of the Right Question Institute (RQI), "shine a light on where you need6 to go.

If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" As

Contextual inquiry is about asking questions up close and in context, relying on observation, listening, and empathy to guide us toward a more intelligent, and therefore more effective, question.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.