Quotes About Understanding

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

The abusive man has another reason to exaggerate and ridicule his partner's statements (and mine): He wants to avoid having to think seriously about what she is saying and struggle to digest it.

It is in your primary relationship that you should be able to feel the most sure of receiving kindness and support, of being carefully listened to, of being seen and understood.

The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come to it, and this time, I won't be sent back. If only the people I'm leaving behind could understand! There is no sadness where I'm going. Only joy.

I hoped for a miracle, but most of all, I hoped for someone to truly understand what I was going through. I can't make you live longer, I can't stop you from hurting but I can give you one wish as someone did for me. My wish helped me find purpose, faith, and courage. Friendship reaches beyond time and the true miracle is in giving, not recieving.

While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another.

Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.

having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q

Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.

Perhaps the corollary would be just as good an opening for a tale; not "long ago, when animals could speak," but "Long ago, when people could listen.

The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.

The more we soak ourselves in God's Word, the more we will be able to readily lay hold of the wisdom we need for particular circumstances.

The only way we will learn to trust God is by getting to know God.

We will never know lasting joy in the Lord if we seek to understand him by what goes on in the world or by our circumstances. The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances (p. 40).

It is impossible to establish a real dialogue with someone who does not consider you an equal (Fifty Shades of Feminism)

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean." Lydia Davis

And, everyone knows, to tolerate a person telling you about his childhood it is necessary to be in love with him.