Quotes About Understanding

Instead of revenge, transcend.

Discerning when and how these commands apply to us involves discerning the heart of God behind the text.

Even though Christianity in the past and in the present sacralizes suffering, in both subtle and blatant forms, it is not a necessary feature of a Christian understanding of the crucified God. At

Hindsight's perfect vision is seldom clouded by context

When people write software, they are not writing it for themselves. In fact, they are not even writing primarily for the computer. Rather, good programmers know that code is written for the next human being who has to read it in order to maintain or reuse it. If that person cannot understand the code, it's all but useless in a realistic development scenario.

In the Python way of thinking, explicit is better than implicit, and simple is better than complex.1

We do not see with our eyes nor with our minds, we only see through the feelings of our Emotions."-Mark Miller

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

The brutality of the world lay beyond my understanding.

No relationship is perfect so just find the right one to go through hell and heaven with.

every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.

Animalism allows empathy with and power over the animal world, as well as the animal within, and embodies the Beast which lurks within the soul of every Cainite. Those with Animalism can understand and soothe the passions of animals and control the actions of such creatures by touching the heart of the beast within them all.

A person should realize that conflict situations between oneself and others are nothing but the effects of conflict situations in one's own soul. MARTIN BUBER Let

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If

and his presence, to always ask myself why people acted the way they did, and to look with compassion at the suffering that must invariably lie at the root of problem behaviors. I have found this invaluable in my subsequent dealings with other difficult people. My

You've got sadness in you, I've got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.

A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.

You can't just shove the past aside. It stays with you, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

Write a novel so clear and compelling you'll never need to explain what it's about.