Quotes About Understanding

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.