Quotes About Understanding

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

To empathize with these patients, to put yourself in their shoes, may be a bit too existentially disconcerting. And so doctors unconsciously try to protect themselves by widening the moat between their own good health and their patients' dauntingly mortal conditions

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

A man who really likes you and cares about you won't care about your weight one way or another.

be at ease with him. What they shared had none of the pain or the passion or

We all have our own crazy ideas about what makes relationships work. The trick seems to be finding someone with similar ideas, or compatible ones at least.

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings.

I'm sorry, Mother," she said quietly. "I didn't realize you cared about him that much." She suddenly understood what she had done and what it had cost her mother. She felt guilty for the first time.

she agreed. The professor said that she

here." "Yeah," she said, as tears rolled down her cheeks again, "and you love Liz too. I could see it." She started to sob then and buried her face in his

forgives me my mistakes. Even in the same family, they're very different people. And it's a miracle if you get it right even some of the time, no matter how hard you try.

open your eyes for us Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's not too exciting

had some form of Asperger's, although there

She wanted to ask him how his