Quotes About Understanding

The only thing I knew to do with a man was what I'd learned from my parents: to fight or not fight. I had no idea how to craft a partnership beyond that one basic thing.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

The foundation for the practice of the social art of homemaking lies in understanding the human being, not only with regard to physical necessities, but also in connection with psychological and spiritual needs, as well as expressions and qualities that live in everyone. Learning to live creatively with other people means learning about all our wonders, weaknesses and glorious potential. But it also means learning to recognize our dependence and influence on the totality of the world around us.

Did I know who I was, or did I just learn to forget myself?

El poeta representa el drama angustioso que se realiza entre el mundo y el cerebro humano, entre el mundo y su representación. El que no haya sentido el drama que se juega entre la cosa y la palabra, no podrá comprenderme.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Revealed humanity is the common denominator of all authentic communication.

for he felt moved by forces that weren't necessarily visible or easily explainable. Coming to Burma had only amplified those leanings. "There are ways of knowing things quite certainly but not by reason," he would write, "and in the East both the wise and the simple accept this.

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love."1

When a mother extends outstretched arms to a son who has failed in sports, or school, or socially, or been deemed not smart enough, 'manly enough,' or just plain not good enough, he begins to understand what love is all about. The moment a mother extends her grace, he begins to understand that goodness in being a man isn't all about his performance. It isn't about his successes or his failures. It is about being able to accept love from another and then return that love.

Imagine a world where people are drawn to the life-changing displays of God's love in our own lives, rather than repelled by our harsh words of judgment and finger-pointing over the sins and imperfections of others.

sometimes it's not necessary to know what elephants or people are thinking, as long as one honors what they are feeling.

There was a lot more that I wanted to tell her, like that everything in this beautiful treasure house of a world breaks, and sometimes things break so bad all you can do is hope to get your heart to stop bleeding long enough for you to sift through the ashes so you can try to gain some slight understanding. But some things that break real bad can be mended if you're lucky enough to have someone on your side with a ton of glue who won't give up."--Vicki Grove, Everything Breaks

When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!

What would become of me if I was never truly seen again?" - Joanna

Not satisfied to just learn the ropes, he analyzed the game

Some of us just accept debt as a part of adult life and trod on, shackled by consequences we don't fully understand.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.

laughter is the shortest distance between two people