Quotes About Understanding

When I see pregnant women, I want to take them by their shoulders and shake. I mean shake. Are you ready?

You have to know what people are capable of, and forgive them for whatever they're not.

Maybe some people, like art, were better appreciated at a distance.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

the staff should work with each child to achieve "a mutually recognized mutual understanding, or a mutually recognized interiority to a same world." To arrive at this understanding—this "intersubjectivity"—staff members should try to enter and inhabit their patients' kinesthetically experienced reality, a reality that Goode characterizes as "thin," immediate, unpredictable, and therefore dangerous.27

Today, in our "shut up, get over it, and move on" mentality, our society misses so much, it's no wonder we are a generation that longs to tell our stories.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

There is no point in being annoyed with anyone — the way they enlarge one's understanding more than compensates for the irritation and inconvenience they cause.

Ist das Göttliche vielleicht gar nicht irgendeine abstrakte unbegreifliche "Kraft" namens Gott, sondern unsere einmalige menschliche Fähigkeit, diese Kraft wahrzunehmen?

read through your tutorial essay draft. Sixty pages describing an off-white canvas. Indecipherable." She shook her head. "It's as if you never learned the most basic analytical habits, so you never had to unlearn them.

Dieser letzte Satz war einer, von dem man sich vorstellen kann, daß Randall Jarrell ihn ausschnitt und als Schutz gegen die Unzahl der ungebildeten Alleswisser dieser Welt in seine Brieftasche steckte.

In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.

That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much about human nature. And write about it in a way that still rings true, all these years later.' ". . . " 'That's Shakespeare's secret. . .

I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.

The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud. James

We're never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.

It was more than happiness. More than affection or gratitude. It was something deeper. It was the sense of being seen and loved exactly for who he was.

We know so little about what goes on in another person's head.

Love saves, that's what I wanted him to understand. Even if I didn't completely believe it myself.

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.