Quotes About Understanding

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.

No woman wants an abortion. A woman who has one is almost always in a desperate situation, and her decision is not made lightly. She deserves Christian compassion, not... self-righteous scorn...

This was their code: They were free to do whatever they wanted with what they got on their own, but they had a general understanding that they shared with one another, and even in a state of inebriation, they rarely forgot it.

Everyone is trying to believe in something these days, and they forget that miracles happen every day when we truly acknowledge the humanity of another or just have a simple, pure conversation with someone else.

Sometimes night has a way of speaking to us, but we almost never listen.

Entiendes lo que te quiero decir? Si el globo terrestre desapareciera un día, si, por ejemplo, la Tierra se estrellase contra un cometa, se despedazara y se volatilizase o simplemente se precipitara en el abismo, si por tanto nuestro globo desapareciera sin dejar otro rastro que este sótano repleto de cartapacios, este sótano bastaría para comprender lo que había sido este mundo.

If you face something that you fear and recognize it for what is, you give it balance. You restore equilibrium.?

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

It takes a collector to know a collector, even if you do stack your treasures in your head instead of out on a shelf.

They looked at the paper and saw nothing in those curving lines, but they knew and understood everything, for their geography was in their blood and they felt biologically their picture of the world.

Kad ne mogu da vidim, ne?u ni da gledam.

Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

Ne ruši sve mostove, možda ?eš se vratiti. Nisi ptica ni leptir obalom što leti, kad nema mostova uzalud je ?eznuti, uzalud je shvatiti, uzalud je htjeti. Ne ruši sve mostove, možda ?eš se vratiti. Ostavi bar jedan most izme?u srca i mene, u samo?i je lakše neshva?eno shvatiti, mogle bi te nazad nagnati uspomene.

every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

Sto vise samujes i cutis o sebi,sve ti je plici u ludji razgovor tvog susjeda.

Nešto od ljudske istine ostane uvek za one koji ih strpljivo slušaju ili ?itaju.

Tko ne vidi sada, taj ne?e nikad vidjeti.

Alles im Leben ist eine Brücke – ein Wort, ein Lächeln, das wir dem anderen schenken.

Nisu svi ljudi tako r?avi kao što to r?av ?ovek misli.

vrline jednog ?ovjeka mi primamo i cijenimo potpuno samo ako nam se ukazuju u obliku koji odgovara našim shva?anjima i sklonostima.

Del resto, non tutto al mondo deve essere detto, scritto, stampato e tradotto. Tra le persone resta molto di inespresso e taciuto, ma comunque di vivo e duraturo. E spesso questo è quanto di migliore e più luminoso ci sia in noi.

život ide daleko, dalje nego što mi možemo da ga pratimo, a ja se samo trudim da objasnim pojedine pojave, kad ve? ne mogu sve da razumijem.

Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

Uopšte, izgleda da je ovom sadašnjem naraštaju više stalo do njegovog shvatanja o životu nego do života samog.