Quotes About Understanding

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we've told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.

There is a certain kind of dignity we admire, and to which we aspire, in the person who refuses to meet anger with anger, violence with violence, or hatred with hatred.

We are always at our best when compassion enables us to recognize the unique pressures and singular stories of the people on the other side of our conflicts.

do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries a sorrow and a struggle. Recognize that we all share a fundamental humanity. Model the

A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons.

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.

People are not born hating each other and wishing to cause harm. It is a learned condition.

in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.

It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the humanity of the person committing the atrocious acts. This is not weakness. This is heroic strength, the noblest strength of the human spirit.

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

I think it was a communication of the heart. When we kept quiet, our hearts discovered that they were kindred spirits.

Peace always comes to those who choose to forgive

Each of us has the capacity to commit the wrongs against others that were committed against us. Although I might say, "I would never . . ." genuine humility will answer, "Never say never." Rather say, "I hope that, given the same set of circumstances, I would not . . ." But can we ever really know?

We do not need to succumb to the temptation to meet such a violation with retaliation. The only way to heal this hurt is to give voice to what ails us. It is only in this way that we can keep our pain and loss from taking root inside us. It is only in this way that we have a chance for freedom.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Forgiveness among the members of older generations could open the door to healthy and supportive relationships among younger generations.

When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All

When we accept our own pain we can begin to see past it to the other person's woundedness. We can begin to consider that if we were in their shoes, if we stood inside their story, we might have done to others what they did to us.

Don't raise your voice- improve your argument.

Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.