Quotes About Understanding

Children do not develop healthily when they are in a constant state of threat. Rituals and routines are a time-honored way that adults communicate to children I am here, I hear you, I understand, and I care

Peace, unity and harmony!

terribly, but Maeve and Annie's friendship

often when we are in the middle of a situation and emotionally involved in it, logic and common sense disappear.

There are many different types of illness and people get sick for different reasons. Sometimes it's easy to see what is wrong with the person; they may have a rash or a bad cough. But other times it's because of how they feel inside and the things they say and do, or can't do.

before the rest of us speak.' Said in such a

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." "It's

You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can't just whisk a magic wand and make the past disappear or rewrite it because you don't like it. You'll never change the present if you do that. You have to learn from what's gone on and work hard if you want to make the future better.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

Maybe it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about himself before now, she thought guiltily. Maybe it's just that I wasn't interested in listening.

How could you ever think you knew a person? Did everyone lie?

the creative use and development of new technologies for learning and research; second, critical understanding of the role of new media in life, learning,

Bharat Mehra, Cecelia Merkel,

We do not claim to have solutions for these massively complex social issues, nor do we claim to understand fully the relationships between and among the various developments we have listed. However, we do believe the opportunity

The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.

Patiently educating a clueless white person about race is draining. It takes all your powers of persuasion.

In other words, can I apologize without demanding your forgiveness?

A Jewish friend told me he never went to a Jewish therapist because it's too easy to assume everything dysfunctional about your family is cultural. Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

Shame gives me the ability to split myself into the first and third person. To recognize myself, as Sartre writes, "as the Other sees me.

Patiently educating a clueless white person about race is draining.

You know, I don't think she ever lost her shit around her white friends." "Yeah, well," Erin said ruefully, "we were family.

In his book White Flights, the writer Jess Row says that "America's great and possibly catastrophic failure is its failure to imagine what it means to live together.

Odd how being away could teach you about home.

I hate when instruction books, blogs or well-meaning friends tell you "just get over it!" or "just write!"   Like that didn't occur to you. Like all it would take is someone pointing out that say, you should just stop doing that thing you've been doing all your life.   "You mean I should just sit down and write? My God, that's brilliant! Why have I not thought of this before? Thank you, oh sage guru!