Quotes About Understanding

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!' 'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too!

learn to accept that you are going to be responsible for many of your children's tears.

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

He had his very own "little white girl" without taking the hit of her actually being white.

Maturity is understanding that not all response requires your time and energy. Learn to protect your peace, some are better off with your silence.

Always be kind, you never know what someone is going through. Whether it's words of encouragement or simple gestures to show appreciation. Remember, all supports goes a long way. Some things may not mean much to you but the world to someone else.

Hate not, for appreciation is the tunnel to love and love is the key to life.

True peace cannot be obtained through force, it can only be contained. Peace requires understanding, defeat can create bitter hearts and minds wanting to seek revenge.

Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Can't a Jedi Knight express himself around here anymore?" -Jacen "Of course, but half a dozen times should be sufficient." - Luke

Hello, Ben. I'm your cousin Jacen." "I know you." You went away when I was two. Did you find it? "Some of it" "So you're going back?" "No. What I haven't found, I doubt I ever will." ?Jacen and Ben

Sowing discord among our Men & Women over individual philosophical perceptions, religious or otherwise, will not be tolerated within my ranks. Grow up or vacate.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

Tayend nodded. "I know it won't. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath." Dannyl straightened in protest. "Underneath what?" The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl's direction. "All…that." "I'm reeling at your descriptive clarity," Dannyl told him.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Tashi says nomads keep to the routines and customs they learned from their parents and they know the basic truths: that life is full of suffering, that suffering can be understood and lived through, that their actions and intentions will determine their future lives just as the past has allowed for this present life.

She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.

We fail to see that recognizing, admitting, and clearly understanding the patterns we experience in our own lives can have a transformative effect on the way we function in the world and the way we relate to others.

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply.

Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke

With a loving mind, cherish more than a child The hostile gods and demons of apparent existence, And tenderly surround yourself with them. — Machig Labdrön (1055–1145)

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.