Quotes About Understanding

My colleague told me: "It took a long time, but I've finally figured it out. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do." That

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the exact moment you do?

The bathhouses weren't open because the owners didn't understand they were spreading death. They understood that. The bathhouses were open because they were still making money.

and that it would come here too. Paul

Then I'm okay with it, Leslie. It's part of who you are and therefore part of the person I love.

There are certain adolescents, usually female, who possess wisdom far in advance of age or explanation. That

They don't need the facts because they already know the truth—their common sense has spared them the effort of investigation or thought.

don't see the point in a useless emotional exercises.

WEIRDNESS IS ONLY WEIRD IF YOU FIGHT IT.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

The world is going to be remade, not reconditioned. All its would-be renovators are powerless to stop this. If these experts do not understand me, so much the better; I certainly have no desire to understand them.

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.* Games teach you how aspects of reality work, how to understand yourself, how to understand the actions of others, and how to imagine.

Merely understanding a space and how the rules make it work isn't enough, though. We also need to understand how it will react to change to exercise power over it. This is why games progress over time. There are almost no games that take just one turn.*

Elderly people reach out and hold the hand of people who speak to them. Imagine holding hands while we argue. Our life will be different.

The triumph of humanity is to recognise diversity and difference yet having the ability to bring people together and create bridges between them.

Hatred is self and other destructive

You can't fake listening. It shows.

***LISTEN! OVER THE YEARS I HAVE SEEN SO MANY FOLKS TRYING TO INTERPRET(BUT THEY ARROGANTLY MISINTERPRET), OUR REGGAE LYRICS, SLANGS AND REASONINGS. THIS IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT, TO KNOW IT. YOU WILL NOT LEARN THIS BY CONSPIRACY OR OSMOSIS.SO, DO NOT SPREAD FALSE RUMORS ABOUT US. SEEK THE WISDOM OF OUR PEOPLE. I, RAS CARDO SAY-WAKE UP AND LIVE!

Harmony is dependent upon a recognition of difference and a willingness to hold one's own truth intact in its presence.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. —GEORGE ORWELL, "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE," 1946

Friends are like stars. you may not see them, but you always know they're there.

What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)

There is one God, and it is not my God but yours.