Quotes About Understanding

Niczego równie trudno nie przebacza siÄ™ komuÅ›, co jego zalet.

Ludzie, którzy coÅ› powtarzajÄ… dwa razy, to gÅ'upcy majÄ…cy za gÅ'upców tych, którzy ich sÅ'uchajÄ…

Si en este mundo no se dice casi nada que sea escuchado como debiera, hay algo mucho peor, y es que no se hace casi nada que sea juzgado tal y como se ha hecho.

Bizim kadar budala olmayanlar? ak?ll? saymay?z.

Nada hay tan difícil de perdonar como el mérito.

When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically. 'I think I might find words a little less interesting,' said Mr Ruche.

Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across.

Nobody's going to cook me and eat me, I hope. People don't quite understand, Michael said, and he may have been serious, to be eaten pays a compliment to your power.

As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense.

I knew that, but he didn't, and therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.

Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true

Nothing sudden is happening here. More is just suddenly being revealed.

Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle.

Sometimes you just have to extend a little grace to people. Not because they deserve it - but because we don't deserve it either.

I often said the wrong thing–wake up, shut up, grow up. These are the wrong things to say when people are sad about some minor cruelty or sentimental incident.

The real meaning of stories depends on where they're told, when and to whom.

Lovely thing about Adam, and why I loved him, was that he was kind to me when it mattered and he had seen a lot too. It's hard to be among vanilla bastards all the time. Normal people can get genuinely upset about a bad haircut, cross words, sick cats. It's hard not to roll your eyes and say the wrong thing.

If we are created to discover God, and we are, then our experience of Him is limited only by the diligence of our pursuit.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

How we understand our problems has an effect on how we cope.

Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)

He wanted to go on for hours. He wanted someone to listen to him and to understand that speech wasn't just about communicating ideas or opinions. Sometimes, it was about trying to convey whole human lives. And while you knew even before you opened your mouth that you'd fail, somehow the trying was what mattered. The trying was all you had.