Quotes About Understanding

Jja s'inquiétait pour lui. Il n'avait pas essayé de lui expliquer tous ses ennuis, car elle n'aurait jamais pu les comprendre. Elle ne lui en voulait pas, il en était persuadé. Elle faisait de son mieux : elle offrait sa compassion silencieuse pour atténuer une douleur secrète, comme maintenant. Il savoura cette attention paisible pendant un moment. —

La vérité est comme un joyau taillé, monsieur Smith. Elle a des millions de facettes. Si je t'en montre une, tu seras satisfait, mais n'oublie pas qu'il en existe bien d'autres. —

Faith was praiseworthy, but should be seasoned with intelligence.

Si tu as l'intention de juger les actes des dieux, Walliesmith, tu dois savoir ce que les dieux savent.

Señor, enséñanos a orar".

Guarda, pues, silencio, hijo mío, y a su tiempo verás que el mayor de los regalos es conocerme de verdad. Y aunque te parezca que mis respuestas llegan terriblemente tarde, mi más preciosa respuesta de todas sigue siendo … Espera".1

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

There are always those people who say something like: "Debriefing? I don't need no stinking debriefing!" and we believe them. But the debriefing is not necessarily for them; it is for their buddy, partner, spouse and their children.

Epictetus, stated it well when he wrote, "It is not the thing itself, but the view we take of it which distresses us.

Bruno Bettelheim, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, argues that the root of our failure to deal with violence lies in our refusal to face up to it. We deny our fascination with the "dark beauty of violence," and we condemn aggression and repress it rather than look at it squarely and try to understand and control it.

You will likely hear participants say such things as, "So that's what you did?" "Oh, I forgot about that." "So, when you did that, that's when I did this. Now it makes sense." Like a jigsaw puzzle that had been scattered with pieces missing, it all begins to come together as everyone adds their one or two pieces.

seeing the elephant.

Every truly successful duck raiser I have observed over the years has had the ability to step out of a predator mentality and has learned how to look at the world from a duck's perspective.

There are times when we can be so annoyed at each other, Elliot, and we yell at each other. But when push comes to shove, we let it go, and we're back to our normal selves, because being unhappy is part of being happy. When two people get married, they say two people become one. No, I don't agree. Two people should remain two people but walk side by side. I've not become Elliot. Elliot has not become Hunny. We remain Hunny and Elliot. And to me, that's important.

Science explains everything. But if it doesn't it hasn't yet.

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right questions.