Quotes About Understanding

Friends don't keep score,

Perhaps, after all, the most beautiful words in the language are I'm sorry.

Nature encourages us to think and feel in primal ways, to clear our heads and hearts of noise, to observe the found world closely, partly to see it for what it is and partly to absorb it as a threshold for imaginative understanding of the nature of nature and our place therein.

What else is there to do here- or anywhere in nature- but to indulge the awareness of your senses, observe, the instructive otherness that lies just beyond- or is it within - the beauty of nature, and improve your understanding of the world around you and of yourself as an observing being?

True insight comes from standing in solidarity with victims.

When Jesus concludes the parable by asking the lawyer, "Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the one who fell among robbers?" (v. 36), he is indicating that the question, "Who is my neighbor?" is really a victim's question, which can only be answered from a victim's point of view.

Algunas veces se ha dicho que el acentuar el carácter cristiano de la cultura occidental nos vuelve ciegos a los valores de otras civilizaciones. Por mi parte, considero que sucede todo lo contrario. En efecto, mientras más entendamos el cristianismo, mejor entenderemos el Islam, y mientras más subestimemos el elemento religioso en nuestra propia cultura, menos apreciaremos las culturas del mundo no europeo.

How many anarchists once they have read an anti-authoritarian account of some historical episode actually go and read accounts from other perspectives?

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

ALIZON They told me no one was here. RICHARD It would be me they meant.

Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.

Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?

She has never learnt to yawn And so she hasn't the smallest comprehension Of those who can.

To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It's what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness.

Let me share what I've learned about Thai politics. Keep a distance from those doing a victory dance in the end zone unless you understand their game, how it's scored and how many players each side has. If you can't figure out the rules of the game, you won't know when the game has started and when it's over. Don't put a bet on a game you don't understand.

There were certain keys to being a good friend, chief among them loyalty, shared philosophy, and willing sacrifice, but Teig had learned that the most appreciated trait in a friend was knowing when to speak up and when to keep silent.

What is friendship, if not a chance to indulge in mutual self-pity?

She was yet another proof to me that nothing limits a person more than what was then called "a clearly-defined world view.

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.