Quotes About Understanding

When you have multiple personalities, you never drink alone.

Humans struggle with the underside of the tapestry, unable to see the beauty in their situation, for they cannot know how the trouble of life fits with The Plan.

Most people made it more complicated than it really was, she thought. They looked for a formula or a mathematical equation. And believed that if you didn't do every step right, you didn't get what you were praying for. She knew nothing could be further from the truth because prayer was about relationship. Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you. She

I pray for unity among those that love You. I pray that You'd open their eyes so that they can see Your truth. I pray for Your hand of protection and guidance.

We think we'll have questions for God when we get to heaven, but when we actually see him, we'll understand it's not about getting our questions answered because the questions won't be important. We'll finally be with God. So I would just look at her. And if she let me, I would hug her. For a long time." I

You struggle. You fight and you claw inside that head of yours. You wrestle with God, with the idea that he actually cares for you, with the place your children have brought you, and a thousand other things. There's something about your struggle others need to know. That they'll benefit from." "I don't understand.

Half of the fear of life is not knowing something that you wished you knew, and the other half is knowing it.

Part of being a good parent was knowing when to say something and what to say, Elizabeth thought. The hardest part of parenting was knowing when to say nothing and listen.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

She's not mean. She's just hurt. An animal that's gentle and friendly growls when it's injured. Remember that when people act ugly toward you. They're usually in some kind of pain.

Knowledge not shared remains unknown

Sometimes knowing how to find the answers and what questions to ask are more important than the answers themselves. - Mr. Lemoncello

Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a society. Few societies seem able to do this willingly.

People don't want the illusion of their manufactured personalities, their political saviors, shattered; personalities created by public relations industries. They don't want to do the hard work of truly understanding how power works and organizing to bring it down.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

The BBC should mirror the country.

Often dyslexic kids will excel in being a little bit mischievous or tying to find attention in other ways because they're not getting it in class.