Quotes About Understanding

She made an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop that lays it all out. Jack would laugh if he knew, but she's been in the system long enough to understand that it all comes down to documentation.

story. (And anyway, Lori doesn't ask "why" questions. She's only

The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.

When she finally stopped, I was only relieved, not understanding that Maisie was like a canary in a mine, warning us of danger that the rest of us could not see.

It's the quiet ones who suffer most.

I couldn't tell if, as husbands went, Paul was unusual, but he seamed to need lots more care and feeding than I bargained on. If only he'd come with an instruction booklet, like our new steam iron did, or even with a little plastic stick with tips about watering and sunlight, like a florist azalea.

The second day of the book tour I stopped an interviewer and said, "Aren't you asking the wrong question?" The interviewer stared at me blankly. "The question is not really why I chose to share my experiences with other people. The question we should be dealing with is why does anyone mistreat their children? I think that's what we should be talking about.

When one is ready, when we choose, the understanding will be a part of life. Then we are guided very differently.

Freedom and simplicity are close companions; simplicity teaches us the ways to release the layers of complexity and confusion that blind us.

Truth is on the side of compassion.

I have no heart?--Perhaps I have not; But then you're mad to take offence That I don't give you what I have not got: Use your own common sense.

I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.

When mysteries shall be revealed; All secrets be unsealed; When things of night, when things of shame, Shall find at last a name… ~ Sooner or Later: Yet at Last

I love you, I love men and women, I love little children and all innocent things, I love, I feel I am love itself—how could I pick out a woman who would hate me so much!

For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.

They never asked any reasons for their parents' fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers and egotisms

and the three women, after crying, felt united in a love.

when he was away she could stand him, and the farther he was away the more she could stand him!

When you are tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it" – Jeff Weiner,

An idiom is a set phrase of two or more words that means something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.

So you see, it doesn't terribly matter if you miss one item of knowledge in a series of similar items because providing you understand the series you already know without knowing that you know.

Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience.

Effective conflict resolution requires empathy: kids have to be able to take their friends' or siblings' points of view into account, which presents a natural opportunity for children to learn to consider other people's feelings.

The other way that we can intervene is to act as mediators or coaches rather than dictators or judges. Instead of stopping the conflict or imposing solutions, we can help kids see one another's perspectives and encourage them to generate their own solutions.