Quotes About Understanding

Este es el amor con las piernas." She then translated without being asked. "'This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.

I love them without trying to change them. I look at their suffering, their hopelessness, and while I'd like to wave a hand and fix it, I can't, so I do what I can... Climb down in their misery and love them where they are... People would much rather die holding someone's hand than live alone.

world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.

And just as we desperately need it from Jesus, there are people who, whether they know it or not, need that gift from us.

That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence." At the time I had not read Wittgenstein

Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

Unstructured chat with such friends has helped me understand Mrs Thatcher, the woman. (page xxvi)

At the same time remember that one can dislike another man's doctrines without disliking the man. If a reply seems rather hard on your pet beliefs, do not regard it as being hard upon you. It is not meant to be. Not one word is intended to hurt anybody personally.

It is said that there comes a point in every mathematics student's education when he hears himself saying to the teacher, "I think I understand"-- and that's the point at which he has hit a wall. Making sure that all gifted students hit their own personal walls is crucial for developing the empathy with the rest of the world. When they see their less lucky peers struggle academically, they need to be able to say "I know how it feels,"-- and be telling the truth.

Why is it a good thing to understand this movie so well? Because it will help you live a good life. Absorbing the deep meaning of the Nicomachean Ethics will also help you live a good life, but Groundhog Day will do it with a lot less effort. 35.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Surrender is essentially an operation by means of which we set about explaining instead of acting.

I said: I don't ever find people uninteresting. On the contrary, I find them so fascinating and so highly-flavoured that after small helpings, I have to go away and chew them slowly and analyse the taste of them.

We don't exist in and for ourselves but only in as much as we are re-created in the imagination of another person— by entering that person's life as fully as possible. I mean, entering it imaginatively, intellectually, physically and emotionally with all the conflicts that that makes inevitable.

communication simply requires

She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them." —LIFE TOGETHER

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.' Then look your fill, and leap away.