Quotes About Understanding

Three issues you need to take good care in a relationship; trust issues, commitment issues and communication issues.

Relationships fail because of trust issues, commitment issues and communication issues.

Distance shouldn't be a factor in a relationship but communication, trust and commitment should be.

Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you're not in control, doesn't it? I should've considered that.

I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people — for human nature was the same all the world over; there was so much bad in the good and so much good in the bad, that it was all a matter of weighing up how much good or bad had been allotted to each one.

It will be a compromise, but that's what the marriage often is

People who sometimes frustrated me to no end, but Franky was right; they were still people. It broke my heart to think of how much they probably wanted to be loved and accepted.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

If people could just understand how it actually felt to be depressed, obsessed, frightened, out of control, maybe they'd be more tolerant, more understanding.

Some knowledge comes to us like a seed.... Then, we have to bury it and leave it alone in the dark. When it's time, it comes up again and grows.

We must be willing to listen to those whose voices have been silenced, to seek out their stories, and to honor their experiences. Only then can we truly understand the complexities of our history, and the challenges we face in the present." (p. 138)

You cannot change the world until you first change yourself. We often look to external factors to bring about change in the world, but true change must come from within. If we want to create a better world, we must first cultivate the qualities of compassion, empathy, and understanding within ourselves" (Kneubuhl 19).

If a mother has an unhealthy need to dominate her children-which she demonstrates by bullying, terrifying, neglecting, suffocating, indulging, humiliating, overprotecting or abusing them- those children must come to the recognition that such treatment is wrong in order to begin the long process of recovery and ultimate understanding.

Integral to being emotionally healthy is to have a mother who has the ability to respect her child's differences and not perceive them as betrayals.

At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers' parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.

The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.

Isn't that what education is all about? Getting the student to sincerely say what the teacher wants to hear? Keep that in mind.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.

That was when I fell in love with my son, when I understood how insignificant I was, and how marvelous he was, and how one day he'd feel the exact same thing.

Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word.

I am a sleeper, a spy, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not a misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, though some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from both sides.

My weakness for sympathizing with others has much to do with my status as a bastard, which is not to say that being a bastard naturally predisposes one to sympathy.