Quotes About Understanding

There is a way to acknowledge the great suffering of others without diminishing our own suffering.

It was becoming very clear to everyone that one of the most powerful dynamics in relationships is trying to understand the other person's dreams, and helping them chase and fulfill those dreams.

every relationship improves when we are mindful of each other's dreams.

You may think you know just about everything there is to know about your partner, but you will be amazed at what you are missing out on if you open yourself up to taking another look. So, from time to time, it may help to approach each other as if for the first time. In this way you will experience the joy of rediscovery. Intimacy is not always about seeing new things. Sometimes it is about seeing what has always been before you, but in a different light or from a new perspective.

What keeps people together in dynamic relationships? A common purpose. Why do people break up? Because they have no sense of common purpose; or they lose sight of their common purpose; or their common purpose becomes unimportant to them. So in order to create extraordinary relationships we have to develop a common understanding of a shared purpose. But before we can understand the purpose of our relationships, we must first understand our purpose as individuals.

In a world where so little makes sense, understanding our essential purpose makes sense of everything. In a world of clutter and confusion, understanding our essential purpose brings a startling clarity to the moments of our everyday lives. In a world filled with experts and their contradictory theories, understanding our essential purpose helps us to listen once again to the quiet voice within.

We live in a world drowning in information and desperate for wisdom.

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.

if I could flatter myself, that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

que aun cuando muchos se llaman cristianos, no saben lo que es un cristiano, o si lo saben, aún no saben lo que implica ser un cristiano.

Porque, aunque no puede haber gracia sin conocimiento, puede haber mucho conocimiento donde no hay gracia;

Él solo conocerá correctamente a Dios, si sabe cómo obedecerlo, y le obedece de acuerdo con su conocimiento de Él:

Sometimes in life, it doesn't matter that you've just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven't brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you're wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.

I didn't want to open up to the kind of pastor who believed that, while I told him my story, God was secretly and inerrantly revealing the rest of my story to him. I've had pastors make assumptions about me before. I'd tell them a story or two, and they filled in the blanks with their own theories and conclusions about the condition of my soul.

I prayed you felt safe, full of joy and content. That when I whispered "I love you," you knew what I meant.

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.

Richard Polly, 1942–2017 "Knowing others is Wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment." —Lao-tzu

Be to her virtues very kind;Be to her faults a little blind;Let all her ways be unconfin'd;And clap your padlock—on her mind!

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

They talk most who have the least to say.

The acquisition of knowledge, the sheer pleasure of finding things out, is the greatest gift in life.