Quotes About Understanding

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If I'm not 100% comfortable in her world and she's not 100% comfortable in mine...then we'll make our own world.

It would go something like this: "When I see you so angry, I feel frightened and unsafe. It makes me want to run away. But I really want to be with you and not run away. Will you help me feel safer?" Or a Lion dealing with the avoidance of the Unicorn: "When you don't respond to me, I feel rejected. Please help me with my feelings of rejection.

You cannot force the mind. And if you try to, you won't like what comes of it.

The trick with women is knowing when to just let them talk.

To expose ourselves to another human's journey is to not only hear the ground truth but also to allow our hearts to soften and our minds to open so that we can access greater empathy, compassion, and trust. So that we can offer the same hospitality to others that we ourselves long to receive.

The transformation occurs in the space between one heart and another. To be heard by someone who is present, open, and caring is to be led into freedom.

We are mysteries unto ourselves. Our lives come to us in random moments...Listen to the stories you tell others. The stories you repeat. The stories you want told at the end of your life. What does the story want from the listeners? What is it you need others to understand?

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?

Maailman kuvaa katselet, et maailmaa.

Astrology can clear up or mix up a person as much as any other psychological, philosophical or religious mirror, a looking glass in the endless mirror hall of life.

Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue — not in others and certainly not in themselves.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn.

There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one

Damals auf dem Rückweg in mein Tal war ich mir noch nicht klar darüber, dass mein früheres Leben ein jähes Ende gefunden hatte, das heißt, ich wußte es wohl schon, aber nur mit dem Kopf, und also glaubte ich nicht daran.

Ce n'est que lorsque la connaissance d'une chose se répand dans le corps qu'on la sait vraiment. C'est ainsi que je n'ignore pas, comme tout un chacun, que je vais mourir, mais mes pieds, mes mains, mes entrailles l'ignorent encore et c'est pourquoi la mort me semble irréelle.

Grumbling is the death of love.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

They're looking for meaning as if it were a Thing. As if it were a Girl, required to take her panty off, as if she would want to do so as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there were something to take off.

It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.