Quotes About Understanding

He'd heard communication described as two monologues clashing, with each person waiting for their turn to speak instead of actively listening.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.

Nosotros tenemos que darnos cuenta de que a nosotros tampoco.

Don't fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fair.

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

You were not alone. All that time. You were lonely

It didn't matter how wonderful Andrew was and how much effort he was prepared to put into their relationship. While Lou didn't feel the same way, his love was only building a tower without foundations.

I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

if I can't tell the difference between a random painting and a masterpiece, maybe the random painting is a masterpiece waiting to be recognized.

A sister smiles when one tells one's stories — for she knows where the decoration has been added.

Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

Arkady looked at the other man. he felt that he was actually seeing him as a physical being for the first time.....He tried to imagine that body with Bella, with any woman, and found the idea...not repulsive exactly, but incomprehensible. How would it work exactly? And how would either of them, knowing nothing of their lover's body, needs and desires, ever be able to satisfy the other?

Oy, veh ! And where were the Italian speakers yesterday when we needed them?" "Today we need Russian!" "Russian? Who needs Russian? I need Litvaks! Are there any Litvaks in here? Anyone here even know what the heck a Litvak is?" "And I need—excuse me, dearie, what language is that you're speakin'?—Well, gracious me, I don't even know what I need! A mind reader, maybe!

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

The Holy Ghost unveils God's Word to us; He reveals the things of God to us.

he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him ..." (1 Corinthians 14:2).

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear" (Isaiah 28:11-12).