Quotes About Understanding

Sin embargo, no le parecía que los escritores ni quienes compraban esos libros conocieran a los animales. Ella tampoco los conocía en absoluto. Eran criaturas. No eran humanos. Suponía que sus funciones se definían por el tamaño, la forma y la complejidad de su cerebro. Suponía también que poseían tenues, vacilantes e inarticuladas vidas psíquicas

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

As being, no matter how small you are, but how much informed, intelligent, adaptable, being…

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life…

Philosophy is one of the ways to use complicated sentences to explain simple concepts.

What is the translation for "I love you because you are" in the Cars language? In the War language for snowdrops?

You can love a person for walking the same roads as you every dusk or dawn. You can love a person a lot by teaching him to love people, thus himself. You can love someone like no one has ever loved or will ever love them, but you can't ask anyone to love you.

People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.

We empower ourselves through knowledge.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

I have no sympathy for people who find unpopularity embittering.

in which letters are written / not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand / but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

To have misapprehended the matter is to have confessed that one has not looked far enough.

YOU love everyONE, whether YOU realize it or not. And everyONE loves YOU whether they realize it or not. Imagine what that means

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

La misericordia, el amor al prójimo, el amor a los que nos aman, el amor a los que nos odian! —murmuró entre dientes—. Debemos ser misericordiosos incluso con nuestros enemigos. Este es el amor que Dios predicó entre los hombres, el amor que me aconsejaba la princesa María y que yo no sabía comprender. Es por esto por lo que siento morir. Si viviera, amaría a todos mis enemigos, pero ahora ya es demasiado tarde. ¡Ya lo sé!

La gente que tiene el corazón en el cuello, en los labios, en los pantalones, en fin, en cualquier otro lugar que no sea en su lugar, acusa de no tener corazón a quien sí lo tiene en su lugar. Después de haber buscado en vano ese corazón en cada uno de los lugares que ellos conocen para el corazón, se convencen de que no tiene corazón; pues él lo tiene justamente en su lugar y ahí no se les ocurre buscarlo[1].

Si para transmitir eso tuviéramos que proponernos dar ejemplo, probablemente significaría que no hemos entendido aún la maravilla de la entrega. Quien la ha captado, no desea prescindir de ella, porque la ama: no encuentra su felicidad contra la entrega, ni siquiera al margen de la entrega, sino precisamente en la entrega, por más que, al mismo tiempo, note el peso del sacrificio»[10].

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

It is remarkable what children will accept as normal, especially when their experiences have been sufficiently broad.

Empaths Do It With Fühlung.