Quotes About Understanding

As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.

People whose hearts are at war toward others can't consider others' objections and challenges enough to be able to find a way through them.

Most problems in life are not solved merely by correction.

In the way we regard our children, our spouses, neighbors, colleagues, and strangers, we choose to see others either as people like ourselves or as objects.They either count like we do or they don't. In the former case we regard them as we regard ourselves, we say our hearts are at peace toward them. In the latter case, since we systematically view them as inferior, we say our hearts are at war.

Knowing the basics of what causes anxiety is crucial to becoming the master of your emotions.

Worry anxiety, therefore, is rightly characterized in Scripture as a lack of trust in God and a failure to fully understand His plan and provision for us. It is clearly harmful to us and, therefore, displeasing to God.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

Love's language everywhere is known.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

Why? I mean, how could you know? I don't understand." "Nothing to understand. There is no great mystery in friendship. You brought yourself here, just as I brought myself here to wait for you. I don't even mind that you've kept me waiting.

She knew what Silas wanted. He wanted her to believe Amos was alive somewhere. Silas wanted help, clinging to his hope. She knew her son. For all her dislike of how much he was like his father, she knew him.

He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

But God, having as little comprehension of the feminine mind as any male, did not reply.

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

Lo que necesitamos —dijo Koehn— es sabiduría, porque la información... no es igual al conocimiento, y el conocimiento no es igual al entendimiento, y el entendimiento no es igual a la sabiduría...

Dónde está la vida que hemos perdido viviendo? ¿Dónde está la sabiduría que hemos perdido en el conocimiento? ¿Dónde está el conocimiento que hemos perdido en la información?   T. S. ELIOT

Intuition, not intellect, is the "open sesame" of yourself. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex with women is totally different from having sex with men. But it isn't. No more than having sex with anyone is totally different from having sex with anyone else.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm

Magic is not illusion, nor is it the artificial manipulation of unnatural forces. In fact, magic is perfectly natural: it is the use of natural energy with conscious intent and awareness to help attain a better understanding of the world around you and to harmonize yourself with the world's energies.

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us. --Oisce