Quotes About Understanding

Y cuando alguien te pregunta: «¿ Cómo estás» a pesar de estar muy ocupado, es porque realmente le interesas.

Lo determinante que tienes que comprender como varón, es que cuando la mujer te hace una pregunta indirecta, no está comenzando a juzgarte, sino que el juicio ya concluyó y resultaste claramente condenado, solo ha venido a comunicártelo de manera indirecta para que cuando reacciones, ella pueda comprobar que sentenció en forma correcta.

Estimados caballeros, por nuestra salud mental y emocional, debemos saber que ellas no hablan como nosotros, nunca quieren decir lo que están diciendo, y entenderlas lleva algunos años de entrenamiento; es casi como aprender otro idioma.

When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

and very carefully to them the truth of what you know, but with kindness in your heart. Have compassion for them, because not everybody starts on an equal playing field. Love, Gloria

And Greg,' she said, turning her face up to him, 'it's stupid and childish, and utterly ridiculous for you to be jealous of my mother! You've never seen that I can love anyone else without detracting from my love for you. I suppose because you had no family of your own, you can't see that love isn't like that - it has no limits, it just stretches to accommodate more people all the time, and it doesn't become thinner in the process, only deeper and richer...

there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

She knew then, if without the words to express it, that what she was studying was not simply music but beauty, and that she wanted to inhabit, completely, that beauty—and

That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

And I will write this down / And then I will not be alone again

Everyone was here to figure something out, not to get something right.

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

And this, I say to you, is the key to a lasting marriage: a spouse who knows and forgives your foibles. It's easy to love strengths....I wish that you should learn to love the worst in each other, too - pride and anger, vanity, fear.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

What you don't know cannot be beaten out of you.

Are you in conflict with someone? Maybe you feel you've done everything you can to make things right. But is there anything else you can do? It would please God so much.

How powerful, how beautiful is the praise that erupts from a life that has gone through the fire and comes out with a truthful, courageous new understanding of the faithfulness of God himself. That kind of faithfulness must be fed by the Word of God, not just as casual reading, but where we bring our inner pursuits in line with Scripture; not just a source of comfort, but the priority of your heart.

Jesus understands the hurt you feel. He experienced denial and betrayal at the deepest level.

Never write people off for making a mistake! God does not work this way, and neither should we.

When do we most need peace? That becomes the cry of our heart when our life is in turmoil and battles are being waged against us. It is God who gives us a peace that passes all human understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh says that he was inspired to write the poem in 1976 when he first heard about the rape and suicide of the twelve-year-old girl spoken of in the poem. "I learned," he says, "after meditating for several hours that I could not just take sides against the pirate. I saw that if I had been born in his village and brought up under the same conditions, I would be exactly like him. Taking sides is too easy" (Nhat Hanh, 1993, p. 107).