Quotes About Understanding

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Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.

Når jeg så prøvede på at forstå, hvad der skete, lykkedes det mig aldrig, fordi jeg havde visket 'forbudt af mor', 'forstødt af mor', ud og skrevet 'skyldig', 'gal' i stedet for. Jeg var gal, det var den eneste forklaring, jeg kunne give på det.

Jeg følte mig (og føler mig stadig) ansvarlig for at have sat dem i verden, men jeg var ved at lære, at jeg under ingen omstændigheder skulle føle mig ansvarlig for deres individualitet. De var ikke mig og jeg var ikke dem. Jeg skulle lære dem at kende, ligesom de skulle lære mig at kende.

I virkeligheden maskerede hvert eneste ord, jeg ikke kunne udtale, et område, som jeg nægtede at trænge ind på. Og hvert eneste ord, jeg glædede mig ved at udtale, angav et område, der passede mig godt.

Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.""Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Nada en este mundo debe ser temido...solo entendido. Ahora es el momento de comprender más, para que podamos temer menos.

Nada de lo que existe en la vida es para ser temido, sino para ser entendido. Ahora es tiempo de entender más, para que podamos temer menos

Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.

You're not listening to any of this, are you?" As far as she was concerned, it was really a rhetorical question. Rather than answer yes or no, Esteban had a question of his own. "Would it matter?" he asked her. "You seem to like to talk, and I've got a pulse." He looked at her over the hood of the car before getting in. "I figure that's about all you require.

Awareness is the key that allows you to stop automatically doing things that drive men away and begin naturally doing things that support happy and satisfying relationships. Master this stuff and you'll notice that men, women, children, small animals, large animals, dust bunnies, and anything else that's not glued down will find it virtually impossible to resist you.

Knowing something intellectually is very different from doing something consistently, mastering it, and benefiting from it.

FEEL SAD, NOT MAD Imagine how painful and miserable someone's life must be to have time to be that mean.

and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only a little. We met — in our mutual gaze — in between a third place I'd not yet been.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

El cuerpo acusa la agresión antes que el cerebro, que se niega a ver lo que no consigue comprender.

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.

If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes "nothing but" a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.

Several Nations from the United States and Canada are embodied in this collection. Even so, no individual writer attempts to speak for his or her entire Nation, only from personal experiences dealing with non-Indians as well as Indians. Sadly, for whatever reasons, some of our worst enemies are on occasion our own people. The

A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." —Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L