Quotes About Understanding

Non sono qui perché voi riteniate come vostre le idee che vi do io, ma per insegnarvi un metodo vero per giudicare le cose che io vi dirò.

3 REALTÀ E RAGIONE

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

She had learned the greatest trick of the interrogator. Remain silent, and they confessed everything just to fill the chasm of silence.

Minnie said, "Better not to ask." "That's our family in a nutshell." "You got that right.

She reached for him, Cruz Chavez, the only man who had ever pressed his face against her and listened to her heart.

Quizás también sin antiguo daño, sin íntimo terror, no haya conocimiento ni bondad tampoco.. Del poema "Investiga la ciencia del dolor

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

No conozco a los hombres. Años llevo De buscarles y huirles sin remedio. ¿No les comprendo? ¿O acaso les comprendo Demasiado? Del poema 'A un poeta futuro' del libro Como quien espera el alba

Pois é": uma maneira tipicamente brasileira de não ficar quieto e ao mesmo tempo não dizer nada.

A gente vive para a frente, mas compreende para trás, ninguém na época disse "Oba, começou a Renascença!

FRASES A boa frase também é uma maneira de conviver com o inexprimível. Dá-se nome às coisas para domá-las.

La verdadera brevedad es saber callar cuando no hay nada que decir.

La lógica del amor no es la de saberse apreciado, sino que se lo deje correr por las paredes y el patio, como un perro que recibe a su dueño

La sensibilidad al dolor no tiene nada que ver con entender

La gente lee en silencio, se mueve en silencio, hasta parece hablar en silencio

There is no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'," he said. "There is only one truth. You'll live to find that out.

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations?