Quotes About Understanding

Mother Teresa said: Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2

Life, my dear, is not about romance. The sooner you learn that, the less of a disappointment yours will prove to be.

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare.

My behavior makes perfect sense to me.

I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be inside someone else's head.

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At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn't expect this at all. We thought they would fail to understand how democracy works. We thought they would be afraid of the Khmer Rouge. We thought they would passively accept their fate. We were wrong.

Mein eigentliches Werk besteht, allen Ernstes, nicht aus Prosa oder Vers: sondern in der Erkenntnis meiner Dummheit.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

Ciò di cui un clown ha bisogno è tregua, la finzione di ciò che gli altri chiamano tempo libero. Ma questi altri non capiscono che la finzione del tempo libero per un clown consiste appunto nel dimenticare il suo lavoro, e non lo capiscono proprio perché loro si occupano della cosiddetta arte proprio durante il loro tempo libero.

Unconditionally! Love is always unconditional, you see. Haven't you…haven't you ever loved a woman?

Non capivano che il segreto dell'orrore sta nel particolare. È molto facile, un gioco da bambini, pentirsi di gravi colpe: errori politici, adulterio, assassinio, antisemitismo. Ma chi perdona il particolare? Chi comprende i dettagli?

Alguien que lo mire desde fuera -todo el mundo es mirado desde fuera por los demás- siente siempre una cosa mejor o peor que aquel que conoce el asunto, trátese de felicidad o de desgracia, penas de amor o "decadencia artística".

Si sa infatti che il vero bisogno, quando lo si avverta nella voce, quando lo si legga sul volto, ha il potere di chiudere le borse.

Apám erÅ'tlenül bólintott, én feléje nyújtottam a csomag cigarettát, vett belÅ'le, tüzet adtam. Sajnáltam már. Rossz lehet az egy apának, ha akkor beszélget elÅ'ször igazán a fiával, amikor az már majdnem huszonnyolc éves.

Es ist doch merkwürdig, daß ich ihr nicht böse sein kann. Ich bin vor Schmerz fast tot, todkrank, und sie tanzt, obwohl sie teilgenommen hat an meinem Schmerz, und ich kann nicht böse sein, nein....

Por felicidad, no alcanzo a entender nada que dure más de un segundo, puede que dos o tres como máximo.

Seni ÅŸu pencerenin önünde ilk gördüÄŸüm an, s?rt?n?, enseni, eÄŸilmiÅŸ genç vücudunu, sanki bin ya??ndaym??s?n gibi eÄŸilmiÅŸ vücudunu gördüÄŸüm an, yaln?zca suçsuzlar? öldürdüÄŸümüzü anlam?? oldum... yaln?zca suÅŸsuzlar?...

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

The haste of Europeans has no place in Tibet. We must learn patience if we wished to arrive at the goal.

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.