Quotes About Understanding

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

I'm totally into the emotional aspect of things.

It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

Observations always involve theory.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

Equality cannot be reached if fought in a divisive way.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.

human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.