Quotes About Understanding

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

What is promised is that those with the courage to mourn will find, in the wake of mourning, a strange blessing: that after the sadness is expressed, the pain released into the accepting air, it is as though some love at the heart of life wraps its arms around the mourner and says, There, there, I am with you, I hear you, I understand. Everything's going to be all right.

So maybe the experience of loss not only helps clarify what is important to us, but also helps us know where we are and the direction in which we want to go. In

Judging a man is easy. Compassion is hard.

People so rarely talked about themselves accurately. They either made too much or too little out of everything. It seemed to Rose that you got to know people much more thoroughly by hearing what they thought and what they did, and then extrapolating the rest as a kind of interesting, intellectual puzzle. All you had to do was listen to the vehemence and passion with which a person talked about things other than himself or herself, and there the person was.

Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.

Grannie Jane raised an eyebrow. "A word of advice, Agatha dear, as you go forward into the world. Remember at all times with whom you are speaking and how your words may be interpreted by those hearing them.

Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.

If nature intended us to talk more than listen, she would have given us two mouths and one ear. —ANONYMOUS

you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.

must honor her, trust her and listen to her. Most of all, he must be willing to let her go.

also free from closemindedness, obscurantism and bigotry.

To understand the ravings of a madman, one must have raved himself, but without having lost the awareness of one's madness,

In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes -- homosexuality, sexual disease, and death -- about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.

You use a different part of your heart with girls.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

What, then, does one experience of the You? -- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it. -- What, then, does one know of the You? -- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.

When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use, we become fully human

We say 'far away'; the Zulu has for that a word which means, in our sentence form, 'There where someone cries out: "Oh mother, I am lost." ' The Fuegian soars above our analytic wisdom with a seven-syllabled word whose precise meaning is, 'They stare at one another, each waiting for the other to volunteer to do what both wish, but are not able to do.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.