Quotes About Understanding

The club safeword phrase is red light. Basic, but universally understood. If you feel unable to speak, you may open and close your right hand, again a universal distress sign. You may use the safeword if absolutely necessary. Of course, all action ceases at that moment.

Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

At that moment, I was sure ... he would cry. It seems that Sakura-chan is the most important person in the world to Syaoran-kun. So when she said, who are you? I felt certain he would cry. I wonder if he's crying now.

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you. I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.

Even if we are different from each other, as long as I can be with her and create happiness for two people with her, then that's enough for me.

Maybe all people who do bad things…are just really lonely.

That Dragon of Heaven wanted to lose his left eye…to be just like you. But deeper still in his heart lies his true desire…and you are the only one…who can give him that. Not that you have a clue what it is! His true desire—it's not what you're thinking!

One night, on the phone with him, in the car on the way back from the grocery store, I broke down crying and said, "I'm a terrible wife. I'm not a good person. I'm as bad as everyone says." He said, "Don't flatter yourself. You're no better and no worse than anyone else.

They listen carefully and empathically, are nonjudgmental, are open to new experiences and perspectives, are approachable and friendly, and like to listen

Countertransference: the helper's reactions to the client that originate in the unresolved issues of the helper.

Mom actually said that? Cassie's face shown with happiness. She always hated my math! Nah, Martin said. She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

It is not enough to know what is written; we also need to grasp the significance of the Word.

Theology always gets into trouble when its practitioners think they know what God is like apart from what revelation says God is like.

Billy would recall years later that the thing wrong with his first foster home, and with every foster home, was that he was never sat down and told why and for how long.

I believe that science is not simply a matter of exploring new horizons. One must also make the new knowledge readily available .. of such a pedagogical effort.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.