Quotes About Understanding

I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The mere reading of words will not show you or give you the experience of truth.

In his book I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer wrote about the influence that Psycho-Cybernetics had on his career, and it's easy to understand why he's so fond of saying, "There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

I make a mental note to befriend some boring people.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool--and I'm not any of those--to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

Never be afraid to tell me anything," he whispered against her hair. "No matter how ashamed you might feel. I'll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.

Cat's friends seemed like very sweet girls," Dad says. "They were the bomb," I say fervently, and he looks back at me with raised eyebrows. "'The bomb' is a good thing? Like 'sick'? "Duh," I reply, and Dad lets out a sigh. "Thirteen-year-olds should come with subtitles," he says, turning onto our street.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

My parents' silences about many things alarmed me. They made me aware of invisible lines that I couldn't see that they drew between themselves and the rest of the world. I never knew when that line might be drawn to exclude me.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.