Quotes About Understanding

On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Do you realize how angry you sound?" must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes.

Even monsters need peace. Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen--to hear --so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. Then maybe we can stop men like me from happening.

People try to make names for things they don't understand

JUNE 1 WHEN WE ARE able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions done in one's past, we strengthen ourselves and can solve the problems of the present constructively.

THREE QUALITIES ENABLE people to understand the teachings: objectivity, which means an open mind; intelligence, which is the critical faculty to discern the real meaning by checking the teachings of Buddha; and interest and commitment, which means enthusiasm.

I prefer to heed the wise words of Booker T. Washington: I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.

solely through the slow and steady building of personal relationships that one discovers the fundamental truth that all people everywhere have the same dreams and aspirations, that all people struggle with the same fears and anxieties.

An apology is a defense, and there is no higher calling than to defend one's faith, especially from ignorance and hate.

As the ninth-century legal scholar Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki school of law, once quipped, "This religion is a science, so pay close attention to those from whom you learn it.

Forgiveness is impossible without embracing innocence, yours and theirs

You can't accept another if you don't accept yourself

Sam Keen. You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Still, agreeing to an adventure and getting involved with Lou were two entirely different things. He only hoped that she understood

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

Richard A. LaFleur

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt.

But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Are you angry, El-ahrairah?' asked Lord Frith. "'No, my lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I am not angry. But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.