Quotes About Understanding

Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can't begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.

Wise are you, indeed," the fox said, "to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.

Thou art to be my companion, and it ill-behooves companions to have misapprehensions about each other.

You'll fight with each other, of course," she told him as they danced, "but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.

If all you're going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody's able to understand?" "Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That's the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.

I realized then that if I could teach my children only one or two basic principles, tolerance would be one of them.

Investment success requires the conviction that comes from a fundamental understanding of the rationale for building the portfolio to certain specifications. Unless investors truly believe in the efficacy and validity of an unconventional approach to asset management, the end result almost certainly fails to withstand the wear and tear of market forces. Thoughtless

Remember, a great tale isn't just about you.  Ultimately, the reader should close your book and feel that a connection has been made, to realize with wonder and delight that "This story is about me.

Cuando hablamos de habilidades blandas, hablamos de capacidad de comunicación, de escucha, de regulación emocional, de empatía, de trabajo en equipo, de manejo de conflictos, entre otras.

Una de ellas era la reinterpretación, es decir, tratar de entender la situación más positivamente. En el caso de los conflictos, eso implica cambiar nuestra creencia de que un conflicto es como una pelea de box, como se muestra en la ilustración 48.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' and swims away; and the three young fish watch him swim away and look at each other and go, 'What the fuck is water?' and swim away.

It took years after I'd graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I'd been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

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