Quotes About Understanding

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

She'd learned that with her daughters. Don't say a word. Don't ask a question. Give them enough time and they'll finally tell you what's on their minds. It was like fishing. It took silence and patience. (Or so she'd heard. Cecilia would rather hammer nails into her forehead than go fishing.) Silence didn't come naturally to her. Cecilia was a talker.

It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes—a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace. —Buddhist quote on Ellen O'Farrell's notice board

A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. Thomas

Nowadays we label children too quickly as bullying, when in fact they can only behave like children.

Polyamorous. It means 'many loves.' If you're poly, you believe in having committed relationships with more than one person. My wife and I are both poly.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

I am convinced that we not only love ourselves in others, but hate ourselves in others too.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

He possessed a great deal of philosophy, or of common sense that looked like it.

In every man there is a little of all men.

I feel that today the importance of grandparents' role within the family is not fully appreciated; children do not usually have the opportunity to be enriched by close proximity to and strong relationships with their grandparents. I know how important those relationships were in my life, and how a lot of the basic understanding I have of life and its values is rooted in my relationship with my grandparents.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

Whether mothers speak with words or with body language -- which girls usually understand as well as declarative sentences -- a mother's feelings become a reference point for a daughter in her growing-up years.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Se há tantas cabeças quantas são as maneiras de pensar, há de haver tantos tipos de amor quantos são os corações.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.