Quotes About Understanding

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.

feel what I feel within myself—that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts—or ideas realize the thing that they are—

bavarder avec eux… Enfin, tu vois.

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

Lumea trebuie s-o p?trunzi cu mintea, nu s? o ba?i cu picioarele! Prostul poate s? mearg? ?i-n cap, c? tot nu-i intr? nimic în el... Doar m?r?cini...

Mai avem înc? multe S? ne spunem, De aceea c?dem Pe unde apuc?m ?i-ncepem lacomi S? vorbim în somn. Cu lucrurile din camer?, Ivarele, caloriferul, C?rora înc? nu le-am spus Nici pe jum?tate din ce-ar trebui.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging surface is left. Who is he, this man whom I have known and not known all my life?

I don't know what my sister thinks about feminism.

Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can learn... Oh, I don't know.

I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I respect, love, and trust the One who endured all this when He didn't have to. I understand Jesus with my heart, and the rest of the world can think of Him as it will.

Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.

El contexto tiene una enorme importancia en la manera en la que evaluamos las cosas y, por consiguiente, en el modo en el que nos sentimos.

El verdadero encuentro entre los seres humanos no sólo es uno de los mejores antidepresivos que existen, sino que además prolonga la vida. Tal vez a la vista de estos datos, la comunicación pueda retomar el papel en nuestra vida que nunca tendría que haber perdido.

En el primer caso, cuando proyectamos en otros rasgos nuestros que nos disgustan, sentiremos un enorme rechazo hacia ellos. Sin embargo, cuando lo que proyectamos en otros son aquellos rasgos favorables que no hemos reconocido en nosotros, sentiremos admiración por tales personas.

La ceguera no se resuelve con el desprecio, con la ofensa ni con el insulto, sino con el reconocimiento de que todos somos de alguna manera «marionetas», «títeres» de las pulsiones de los egos.

Lo primero que tenemos que aprender a hacer es dejar de agredir, de maldecir y de odiar a nuestros «enemigos». La sabiduría nos permite entender que ellos no están mucho más ciegos que nosotros.

Para convertirse en un observador de sí mismo, de los demás y del mundo hay que tener una mentalidad de principiante, de alguien que reconoce que no sabe y que quiere saber. Y esto no es posible sin el interés que despierta la curiosidad.