Quotes About Understanding

Kumazawa:—"When others blame thee, blame them not; when others are angry at thee, return not anger. Joy cometh only as Passion and Desire part.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Não se pode trocar um aperto de mão com um punho fechado

You cannot shake hands with a closed fist.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

Jei ?žeidžiau jus, J?s? Šviesybe, vadinasi, nusipeln?te kiekvieno priekaišto.

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

Quién me pregunta a mí, quién pregunta alguna vez a personas que piensan por sí mismas y se atreven a vivir, y en qué me habéis convertido, a mí y a tantas otras con esta absurda actitud comprensiva ante cualquier problema, acaso no se le ha ocurrido a nadie que también se asesina a las personas cuando se les priva de la palabra y con ello de la posibilidad de vivir y pensar.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

Spiegami, amore, quel che non so spiegare: in questo tempo breve, orribile, dovrò avere il pensiero solo per compagno? nessun affetto conoscere o creare? che uno pensi è necessario? la sua mancanza non si avverte? tu dici: un altro spirito conta su di noi... non mi spiegare. vedo la salamandra guizzare in ogni fuoco. non prova brivido e nulla le fa male

For in his presence I grow silent, because the smallest words — yes, now, well, and, but, then, oh! — are so loaded, coming from me to him they have a hundred times their meaning

A quien nunca se quedó sin palabras, y yo os lo digo, quien sólo sabe ayudarse a sí mismo, con las palabras, a éste no se le puede ayudar. Ni por el camino corto ni por el largo. Hacer sostenible una única frase, aguantar el dig-dong de las palabras. Nadie escriba esta frase que no la firma.

You came after me, you can't have preceded me, you're completely inconceivable before me.

Cui ii e dat sa traiasca un "de ce" indura aproape orice "cum".

Oder leiden die anderen nicht so sehr darunter, weil sie kein andres System haben, die Welt zu sehen?

speak across borders even if borders pass through every word.

Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don't even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives.

What of those loving, accepting, understanding voices? Do you hear them? Or do you only hear what hurts?

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back. ~ William D. Tammeus

No one else looked at her as if she were the answer to every question he'd ever asked.