Quotes About Understanding

When we show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves.

The friend who can be silent with you in a moment of despair is a friend who cares.

I see something more in every tear you have ever cried. Because I was there to see it all.

You have known defeat, and suffering. And known loss, and have found your way out and have a understanding of life that fills you with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving courage to say, Yes to life.

Sometimes people come into your life. Not to love you.. But to make you feel you are worth loving.

She is a rare woman. That is why she loves you. "If you can't Respect her, you don't Deserve Her!" Understand that and love her more!

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. It's best to accept life as it really is and not as you imagined it to be." "Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.

Paradoxically, our ability to see something of the Shadow within ourselves sharpens our capacity to recognize shadowy actions around us.

Nothing human is alien to me." But can that be true? Surely the I that I know and treasure, the I that I present to you, is free of the darker sides of human conduct.

enough. Thus it is owned, possessed, directed by that which it does not know.

Be kind. Everyone you meet has a very large problem.

The turbulence of the Middle Passage may resemble a psychotic break wherein the person acts crazy or with draws from others. If we realize that the assumptions by which the person has lived his or her life are collapsing, that the assembled strategies of the provisional personality are decompensating, that a world-view is falling apart, then the thrashing about is understandable.

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.

You dont have to forgive something you love. You forgive the ones you dont love.

Maybe that's the reason we're on this earth, to learn to love without hating.

The women ran this world; and nobody knew it better than a man in love.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Have read little and understood less.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.