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Quotes About Understanding

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow
~ Lawrence Clark Powell
I'm always amazed when adults say that children "just did that to get attention". Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?
~ Lawrence Cohen
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
~ lawrence d h iii
No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.
~ lawrence d h iii
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
~ lawrence d h iii
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
~ lawrence d h iii
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
~ Lawrence Durrell
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Like a bowl of roses, a poem should not have to be explained.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is the shortest distance between two humans.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Empathy involves at least emotional sensitivity to others and at most an ability to understand another's point of view.
~ Lawrence Freedman
Tricks with language allowed the foolish and ignorant to appear wise and knowledgeable
~ Lawrence Freedman
Tolstoy's belief that true understanding only existed in the present and events were decided "on the instant." This is why Kutuzov's best advice before the battle was to get a good night's sleep: immediate attentiveness to unfolding possibilities was going to be more valuable than forward planning.11
~ Lawrence Freedman
La persuasión exigía utilizar palabras convincentes: de los que saben pero no tienen «el poder para expresarlo claramente», bien se puede decir que no saben nada.
~ Lawrence Freedman
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
At one point in one's life you get a sense of your own mortality. You view death in a certain way. From that point on you look at your fellow man with a new understanding. I have some feelings for it now. They say it happens in your mid-thirties. Sometimes I have a fantasy of my corpse being carried around in a box, people mourning me. Saying, "We shouldn't have treated him so badly.
~ Lawrence Grobel
If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
~ Lawrence Grobel
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
Children don't say, "I had a hard day at school today; can I talk to you about it?" They say, "Will you play with me?
~ Lawrence J. Cohen
Feelings aren't supposed to be rational. If we stop judging fears as invalid, we can find a deeper empathy.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen