Quotes About Understanding

You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time. It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

Love is a lesson worth learning.

All pain is the same.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best.

Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.

If you are in a place where you're more powerful than the people around you, listen as much as you talk. And if you're less powerful, talk as much as you listen, Gloria Steinem

The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.

You can't get mercy unless you give it. You can't receive compassion unless you give it.

each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.

The key to any relationship is communication. And I've always thought that communication is like a dance. One person takes a step forward, the other takes a step back. Even a single misstep can land both people on the floor in a tangle of confusion.

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

Mungkin orang tidak ingat apa yang pernah kamu lakukan atau katakan, tetapi mereka selalu ingat bagaimana kamu membuat mereka merasa.

My pain is your pain because all pain is the same

La única meta a la que vale aspirar es una transformación de conciencia que me permita saber y entender que no soy mejor o peor que otro ser humano. Solo soy.

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them. (p.191)

The gap between compassion and surrender is love's darkest, deepest region.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we understand them. I must confess that over the entire eight years I only rarely enjoyed the contentment of the second possibility, let alone the first.

Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in life, that's a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you've finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn't understand before, in order to understand life, isn't that so, Fatma?

If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.

I'm a dog, and because you humans are much less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, 'Dogs don't talk.' Nethertheless, you seem to believe a story in which corpses speak and characters use words they couldn't possibly know. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten.