Quotes About Understanding

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for women, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows sometimes we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.

There is none so blind as the one who does not want to see.

Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.

Only when l know, the truth will set me free!

Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don't betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don't imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

In order to hear Love's words, you must allow Love to approach.

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.

La folie, c'est l'incapacité de communiquer ses idées. Comme si tu te trouvais dans un pays étranger : tu vois tout, tu perçois ce qui se passe autour de toi, mais tu es incapable de t'expliquer et d'obtenir de l'aide parce que tu ne comprends pas la langue du pays. -Nous avons tous ressenti ça un jour -Nous somme tous fou, d'une façon ou d'une autre.)

Where have you been? is not an empty question. anyone asking it is also saying I missed you, I want to be with you,I need to know what you've been up to

El sabio es sabio porque ama. El loco es loco porque piensa que puede entender el amor.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

She had lost her innocent vision of justice early in her career, and had come to understand that the laws had not been created to resolve problems but in order to prolong quarrels indefinitely.

Then seek the Truth. Seek always to be on its side, even when it brings you pain. There are times when the Truth goes quiet for long stretches, or when it doesn't tell you what you want to hear. That's Sufism.

Naturally, I seek consolation in other people's suffering.

On the myth of Eros) Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.

I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.

I'm not saying: Seek out people who think the same as you. I'm saying: Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them…

If he was the man she wanted him to be, he would not be intimidated by her silence.

And, in that mood, he was grateful to be in love. When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.