Quotes About Understanding

Once you realize that most people are just like you—and that they're actually seeking your approval—you'll start to become socially fearless.

Most things are not about you, though they do reveal how you think about yourself.

2. As long as at least one partner is in the adult functional at any given time, most—if not all—arguments can be avoided.

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom.

He was validated. She was validated. They validated each other. They were a perfect pair, each completely unaware of the other. At

And I already like Nicole enough to hope she'll consider being my consensually nonmonogamous polyamorous pluralistic multiple-relating primary partner.

Talking in statement form is the way old friends speak to each other. Statements are the mode of the intimate, the confident, and the giving. They invite others to share and make perfect metaphysical sense.

love is not about finding the right person. It's about becoming the right person.

And because no one ever understands a word I say—my voice is too fast, quiet, and mumbly—I started taking weekly private lessons in speech and singing.

Being submissive does not mean that we don't give honest feedback.

18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.

What do we get out of entering other people's suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?

But it wasn't the intermittent reception or even the whispering that exasperated Amina so much as a familiar trick of her mother's: to bring up a subject in such a roundabout way that Amina had to pry it out of her, as if she were the one who'd wanted to discuss it in the first place.

Mrs. Rahman. It was impossible to know whether Mokta

Who knows? Why do women do anything they do? Except for you," George amended, as he always did. "You're logical.

But I have never been sure that we are all talking about the same thing when we talk about love. Perhaps real love is too boring to talk about. Heartbreak is so much easier to understand that I think we might sometimes employ it as an understudy, a stand-in for the real thing.

She wasn't any more familiar with boutique shopping in Bombay or the challenges of dating someone in the movie industry, but she knew what it was to feel that you would never become fully adult in the country where you lived, would never understand the jokes or master the graces that came so naturally to everyone around you.

It was possible to be struck dumb by all sorts of emotions, not only surprise, and as they drove back toward Pittsford, Amina thought that there ought to be a whole set of words to encompass all those different varieties of silence.

You knew what his opinion of you was, while he -- Well, 'twas ever thus. We know, always have. They don't. Not quite. It has, you will admit, its humorous side, and sometimes, its conveniences.

How many people from the Mideast take a cultural sensitivity class before they come to America? Why is it always us who have to be sensitive to other cultures? Works both ways.

Before you go on any mission, you need to understand what you know, identify what you don't know, and try to guess what could go wrong.

truth needs two people to make it work—the speaker and the listener.

Before you go on any mission, you need to understand what you know, identify what you don't know, and try to guess what could go wrong. And finally, getting there is only half the fun; you need a clear path home.

if he were honest with himself, he'd understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don't bother to hate what you think is contemptible.