Quotes About Understanding

You're both a stranger and a friend. You're a friend to those who know you and a stranger to those who don't know you yet. So live by the Golden Rule.

Every friend was once a stranger.

Everyone possesses the spirit of his friend.

Know the spirit of every friend you make before you bond with them.

Friendship is spiritual...highly spiritual.

Friendship is the only relationship in the whole universe that has the capacity to bind two different spirits together.

Friendship is a relationship for spirits.

as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows.

Thoughts disentangle themselves when they pass through the lips to the fingertips. If

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

The past, I mean the real past, matters less than we pretend.

Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy.

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

Oh, Ma, how little I understood you, thinking how little you understood.

Tal vez el amor no nace ahí, no en un repentino arrebato de passion, sino en el reconocimiento y la sencilla aceptación de, de algo que no sé qué es

Do not look so worried, Anna said, I hated you too a little, we were human beings, after all.

We understood each other, yes, but that did not mean we knew each other, or wanted to. How would we have maintained that unselfconscious grace that was so important to us both, if we had not also maintained the essential secretness of our inner selves?

remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

That clever folk care less for what ye think than why ye think it.

En ningún caso, solía insistir, comprendían los magos necesariamente su arte, a pesar de que la experiencia lo había llevado a un par de conclusiones generales sobre el tema. Por ejemplo, que cada vez que aprendía algo nuevo sobre sus poderes, esos poderes disminuían, o en todo caso, quedaban alterados.

I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subtly convenient.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,' he wrote. 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

It's not their fault they do not know The birdsong from the radio.

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. —Oswald Chambers