Quotes About Understanding

If di-Master Strinni knew any sort of sign language, it would be the Human variety.

There are patterns in imperial communications, as there are in everything else. Once the pattern is known, knowledge is easier to obtain.

To live in a world fairly dripping with technology and yet have no concept of how or why any of it worked—it seemed incomprehensible.

Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie.

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How are we ever going to work this out if you keep rehashing the past, Cali? Or maybe you don't want this to work. Is that it? I'm not your ideal man, so you don't want me anymore. Is that it, Cali?

I know that. What's your point?

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty. -Kuchiki Rukia

Cats cant speak, that's common sense. -Yoruichi

If I ask, will you answer? It's your problem. A deep deep problem. I have no right to know. I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without it getting dirty. So I'll wait. When you want to talk, when you think it's okay to talk, talk to me. Until that time, I'll wait." - Rukia Kuchiki

We are all born dead. The end exists beafore anything begins. If living is a constant quest for awareness, the awareness we gain at the end is the real goal. In other words, death is the discovery and complete understanding of the end. We are not permitted to seek awareness. Those that cannot transcend death will not find awareness in anything.

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.

What's really ugly is judging others based on how they look.

Whenever people grow close… a heart is born between them. It isn't inside our bodies. Whenever we care about something… whenever we care about another person… a heart is born. If you were alone in the world…I don't think you could have a heart.

You probably don't think I'm the ideal child. But the fact you people think that means there's a possibility that I don't think of you as ideal parents either. Adult don't realize that because they don't consider children to be equal human beings.

Don't put your finger In my heart

She'd laugh at odd times as we talked and this flustered me pleasantly and made me laugh too, as if we both understood something we couldn't say.

I had no right to see them this way.

Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, Capiche - oh, God, capiche, and at that...

And Marty understood that there was never going to be anyone to tell her these things. She had no idea why this should be so; it was just something she knew.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

number of friends I began to understand that this was a mother lode of material that deserved the permanence a book would represent. It was a daunting undertaking: because there are

This idea originated with psychologist Carl Rogers (see p 238), who taught that nonjudgmental listening and acceptance of another person's feelings create rapport. Applied