Quotes About Understanding

Anything that takes your heart, Darling,' the woman smiled, patting Odette on the shoulder as if she was a child.

To win power, we need self-discipline not self-indulgence; listening to what people are truly saying, not hearing only the parts we want to hear.

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

I only know what I believe.

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one – to be imposed on the other side if necessary – that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Shown (Ezra 9:8). Poured (Psalm 45:2). Received (Romans 1:5). Seen and perceived (Acts 11:23; Galatians 2:9).

A heart of compassion is just as hard to hold within you as one of indifference" -the Truth Bird

Don't you know me? Am I not your own self?

Bueno —dijo Mallory, tirando de un hilo suelto en el dobladillo de su jersey—, seguramente es mejor así. —No, ni mucho menos —replicó Jared—. Hasta tú deberías darte cuenta de eso. ¡No podemos devolver lo que no tenemos! Los monstruos no creyeron a tía Lucinda cuando les dijo que no tenía el libro. ¿Por qué iban a creernos a nosotros?.

Even the most wicked have a family that loves them.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

I'm sorry that I hurt you." "You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind of Indian you were. But what hurts me most is to know what kind of man.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since

You have to know human behaviour… And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You'll never write above what you know about people.

Don't say we're not right for each other because the way I see it, we might not be right for anyone else...

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation.

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

I never start one of these books in which they appear without being motivated by a desire to give those who read them at least some insight into the culture of a people who deserve to be much better understood. —Tony Hillerman

McKee had concluded years ago that the intricacies of feminine logic were beyond his comprehension.