Quotes About Understanding

I've come to realize that being around someone with Alzheimer's is like being around someone who's really, really wasted. And like someone who's had way too much too drink, his mood and attention swings from one subject and emotion to another. Now he pauses, spots something

A cat can be great company if you're a cat person. If you're not, well, let's just say that you shouldn't go there.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as along as it thinks the other minds are different from it.

Nature never allows man to understand it, however intelligent he thinks he may be. It tempts his reason by offering an initial success only to seduce and pull him on its side later, once for all. Finally, a man is left to sing the irrational songs of the nature!

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Their relationship consisted In discussing if it existed.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Pastors simply need three characteristics to satisfy all their church members: omniscience; omnipresence, and omnipotence.

Clarity is the ability of the process to be communicated and understood by the people.

Some churches are not clear on a ministry process because they do not have one. Others have one, but it is too complex. It is too complicated, too long, or too confusing. The process is ineffective because it cannot be understood. Without understanding, commitment wanes. Understanding always precedes commitment.

Leading a church would be a lot easier if we didn't have to deal with people.

I simply know that if something is important to the church, it really cannot be over-communicated.

I am suggesting that congregations across America are weak because many of us church members have lost the biblical understanding of what it means to be a part of the body of Christ.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or do that prompted the action? Why did I react to it as I did? Does what happened make a major difference to me, or am I making something big out of a trifle?" Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

A system administrator sometimes needs to be a business-process consultant, corporate visionary, janitor, software engineer, electrical engineer, economist, psychiatrist, mindreader, and, occasionally, bartender. As

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.