Quotes About Understanding

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

I have days when I think to myself, "You know, I'm gonna give everyone a break today." You should try it sometime. Have a "Give Bitches a Break" day.

Ultimately, it's about the love you give and the love you allow yourself to receive. Everything else fades away.

There's little comfort in the wise.

My mum and dad taught me not to laugh at people who aren't laughing," she explained. "Besides, I think in life, the joke usually turns out to be on us.

cognitive dissonance is

Sometimes the person you're closest to is the one you understand the least. Sometimes, when you're that close, everything just blurs.

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth

Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.

We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.

There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.

These great trees of the mountains, I feel they know me well, as I watch them & listen to their secrets, happy to rest my head beneath their outstretched arms.

Try loving your enemies. If nothing else, you'll confuse them.

We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.

Keep an open mind. Different books, different faiths, often say the same thing.

Animals have simple needs, and all they want is to be left alone. We are the interlopers.

All men are my friends. I have only to meet them.