Quotes About Understanding

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

It is not accidental that it is love for a child that nearly transforms Ahab and does in the end transform Lear. It is only when the care of another, especially a child, becomes our primary concern that we can finally see and understand why we were created.

Sobchak found Putin useful both because of his connections in the security services and for his understanding of foreign economies—a mix of old skills and new.

I actually don't believe that the Administration wants war, but I also think they are all tactics and no strategy. Plan seems to be escalation with no endgame, and no understanding of how Iranian psychology actually works.

I'll not have that talk at the table. He nodded and sipped coffee. He'd never fully comprehended what was allowed at the table and what was not.

The more she knew, the worse she'd worry.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

In the eyes, heart, and mind of the one you love and who you want to love you, you will become, in essence, a new person.

If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.

Those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

The relationship must come first or it will not last.

What will allow you to enter the world of great relationships is living in accord with the simple but powerful Laws of Love.

You can easily see that if you are regularly nasty to your loved one, it won't be long before cause and effect sets in and undermines your relationship. The reverse is also true: if you are unceasingly caring and loving to your loved one and act with the Laws of Love in mind, you will be deeply loved in return and your relationship will thrive.

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.

Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of our relationship. When you are committed to an enduring relationship with someone, you aren't simply concerned about having your needs met. You also go out of your way to care for your loved one, being aware of and adaptable to their changing needs.

What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers.