Quotes About Understanding

Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.

we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

be patient and curious instead of instantly judgemental.

You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.

They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

When you gaze into the eyes of another person you can only see as far as his closed door. So take it as an opportunity to knock on that door. If he doesn't want to open the door you bow to him and you say, That's fine. When you're ready.

On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you're withdrawn and aloof and you have a grandiose sense of your own importance.

he's a grey area, in a world that doesn't like grey areas, but the grey areas are where you find the complexity, it's where you find the humanity, and it's where you find the truth.

Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I

Evil is relatively rare; ignorance is epidemic.

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance.

Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit.

The enemy is noise. The goal is clarity.

B. A." Here you can infer B, no matter which

If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

No one has ever been able to successfully map the coast of sorrow. It is not because of the jagged reefs, the treacherous fogs and shoals. Or because it's prone to ferocious storms and deadly tides that can eat a ship as easily as it can a man in the water. No one has ever been able to map the coast of sorrow because so much of it is invisible.

Some people are more forgiving when they understand a situation, while others become even more furious once they see the whole picture.

Quelli che ci amano possono essere divisi in due categorie: chi ci capisce e chi ci perdona i nostri peggiori peccati. Raramente riusciamo a trovare una persona capace di entrambe le cose.

To, ?e milcz?, nie znaczy, ?e nie mam nic do powiedzenia.

cerca di non arrabbiarti troppo con chi pensa di conoscerti meglio di quanto tu conosca te stesso. Ha buone intenzioni.

Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que respecta a las emociones de sus padres.

Conoce esa sensación? Seguro que sí: tropezarse con un artista cuyo trabajo te habla tan directamente que es como si los dos compartieran el mismo lenguaje cómplice, y eso a la vez te reafirmara en lo que siempre has pensado y te dijera algo completamente nuevo. (...) ¿No la ha sentido, entonces?