Quotes About Understanding

He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us "go.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.