Quotes About Understanding

GöÄŸü kesip geçen her KuÅŸun, nereden biliyorsun ki, Senin beÅŸ duyuna kapal? hazz?n engin dünyas? olmad???n??

Neither youth nor childhood is folly or incapacity

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love...

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! He who does not know truth at sight is unworthy of Her Notice.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

Mümkün deÄŸil DüÅŸüncenin kendisinden Daha büyük bir ÅŸeyi tan?mas?

Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease. And builds a Heaven in Hells despair. Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight; Joys in anothers loss of ease. And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.

Ben has been a discreet and true friend, given he was an usher at my wedding. I tried to explain the situation vis-à-vis Lottie but he didn't want to hear. 'I don't care, Logan. You live your life and I'll live mine. I won't judge you? just as long as you're happy. I'd hope you'd do the same for me.' I assured him I would.

Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it.

No, no - you have to understand, Lysander, here in Vienna, in this ramshackle empire of ours, suicide is a perfectly reasonable course of action. Everyone will know your true feelings and why you had no choice but to do it - no one will condemn you or blame you.

The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.

Love is not a feeling. It does not belong to that category of bodily experience which would include, for instance, pain.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.

Silence can be complex too, but you do not get far with silence.

But though I have felt free only in the presence of works of the imagination, knowing the quickening of the sense which came of it, and though this experience has held me firm at such times, yet being of a slow but accurate understanding, I have not always been able to complete the intellectual steps which would make me firm in the position. So most of my life has been lived in hell -- a hell of repression lit by flashes of inspiration, when a poem such as this or that would appear

ethnocentrism—the tendency to evaluate the customs of other groups according to one's own cultural standards.

Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.