Quotes About Understanding

I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.

ANYBODY CAN BE WITH YOU when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up. Many

She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.

But controversy is a teacher.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

learned: people in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn't possible on the page or screen.

Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.

the clearest view is always from the bottom. Kennedy

Nor was he around when I finally understood that having a loving and nurturing father made a lifetime of difference. Only after I saw women who were attracted to distant, condescending, even violent men did I begin to understand that having a distant, condescending, even violent father could make those qualities seem inevitable, even feel like home. Because of my father, only kindness felt like home.

childhood memories are prisms, not panes of glass. Details may loom large in the eyes of our smaller selves, while important events lie beyond our vision or understanding.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

We learn where we know the least.

This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning—and more will.

wisdom they taught me: If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them.

Our grief is not a cry for war.

for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions. It

if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also

a quote from The Little Prince: "True love is visible not to the eyes, but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.

Maybe U.S. policy makers should talk to taxi drivers.

this country is transforming before our eyes. In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy. It may just be their fear and guilt talking: What if I am treated as I have treated others?