Quotes About Understanding

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Nevertheless, my experiences with abductees push me toward this conclusion.

Sometimes this not remembering appears to protect the abductees from a distress that they could not handle, especially in the case of children. But we have little understanding of how this repressing force works, or, for that matter, why an altered state of consciousness, facilitated in a caring, protective setting, is so effective in recovering abduction memories.

We can admit that psychiatry does not have all the answers to understanding mental disorders, so why should we believe that science is prepared to explain everything that happens in this world?

My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

Asperger's is not a disease. It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put whatever I handed him in his mouth. He would try to eat anything. I fed him Tabasco sauce and he yelled. Having a little brother helped me learn to relate to other people. Being a little brother, Snort learned to watch what he put in his mouth.

It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that throws other people for a loop.

delineated with signs reading: TOWN OF AMHERST WATERSHED NO TRESPASSING Which every boy in the neighborhood understood as: PRIVATE PRESERVE FOR KIDS

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

a crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?