Quotes About Understanding

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

I was not talking to a sane man in those phone calls. There was a disconnect and an egotism that was at times breathtaking: His insistence that I must have known I was not his son all along. His question "Did you not notice we never bonded?" And worst of all, the utter absence of an apology or any hint that he understood what he had put me through when I eventually was the one to break the truth to him. All these things regularly float through my mind and convince me of his madness.

I also understood how events or circumstances could cascade out of control and your entire ability to deal with the present can be lost.

You can know something in your head but not in your heart.

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees

It is you," Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.

those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

Always seek to allow others the space to be imperfect.

The one and only skill that resolves the crisis of meaning is that of acceptance.

other and often occur simultaneously.

Passion is a meta-emotion — an emotion that is felt only after observing other emotions over time.

when proving what caused an accident, disciplines such as metallurgy are much less difficult to employ than psychology. So perhaps they should better be called "easy science" and psychology called "hard science.

a child hears the question as a question, not as something he needs to do. Also, don't just say, It's time for bed. That's not as definite a directive as parents think it is. Be absolutely clear, explicit, and direct: Please go to your room and put your pajamas on and get in your bed. Clarity is not only good for your child, it's also good for you and your family.

Know what you are talking about.

Employee ideas illustrate the profound understanding of a company's capabilities and customers that only people working on the front-lines can possess.

As I turned toward writing, which is partially intellectual in its function, but is primarily intuitive and emotional in its execution, I turned towards that which was numinous and emotional in me, and that was the legend of King Arthur Asleep Under the Hill. It stood for all that I'd had to give up in order to understand what I'd had to give up.

We have to tell stories to unriddle the world

What the eye doesn't see,"' said the man, '"the heart doesn't grieve for." Or does it?

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

Silly to you, maybe. All reasons are silly to someone else, and we think the challenges to the books already removed are silly. What makes one person's reason any sillier than another person's reason?

Miss Hachi," he said. "Master Fungus." "Fergus.