Quotes About Understanding

Other people's problems always seem so fixable compared to our own.

Understanding did not always wipe away pain, but it helped, surely?.... ...and if understanding did not eliminate troubles it eased the sense of betrayal- Li Lei

science, as good as it is with how, isn't equipped to deal with why.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he's in a good mood.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

Guð einn veit, hverju fólki datt í hug að ljúga upp á mig," segir Jörgen, alltaf jafn viss í eigin sök og tilbúinn að skilja sjálfan sig. Enginn skildi Jörgen Jörgensen betur en hann sjálfur.

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

But there are still times that I talk to the sky, and by the sky i mean Jim. Try to explain the life i have now to the same color blue that used to flash in his eyes.

God. Jesus. -Any other Lords' names you want to take in vain? -Yeah...Ganesh, damn it. -Who's Ganesh? -He's a Hindu god. He's the Remover of Obstacles. -Oh yeah? They got a god for that? We could use a Remover of Obstacles. Well, I don't care if you take a Hindu god's name in vain--just lay off Jesus. -Okay, Dad. I'll lay off Jesus. -What's this Remover of Obstacles look like? -I think he's an elephant. -Yeah? An elephant. Jesus Christ, can you believe that?

As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron: that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron- so through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that ll of life is one.

It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, he or she will always love us. It is when we do not want to possess, when we do not make demand after demand, that the relationship will last.

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.

But if you do not learn how to love, everywhere you go you are going to suffer.

This is what we should do in a disagreement: play half the time for the other side, half the time for our own. It is not a question of sacrificing principles; this is the only way to see the whole.

when you put the other person's welfare foremost every day, no matter how strong the opposing tide inside, you discover after a while that you can love a little more today than you did yesterday.

Whatever the flavor of our anger – irritability, rage, stubbornness, belligerence, or sullen silence – it can all be transformed into compassion and understanding. Those we live with will certainly benefit from that, and so will we.

Even with the best of conscious intentions, we may provoke a nasty clash. But if we can support the other person and express our disapproval tenderly, with respect, it will help him or her to see more clearly.

Almost every estrangement can be mended if one person involved is willing and able to forgive.

One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana.

Tâm h?n ?úng là m?t th? bí ?n. Nó v?n thu?c v? ta mà chính b?n thân ta l?i không th? n?m b?t, th?m chí ?ôi lúc th?y s? nó.