Quotes About Understanding

Before parents blame their children, they should first look to how their daughters and sons were raised.

A strong perspective is the root of wisdom.

Every ordinary moment, every little detail should be a celebration of your personal understanding. Your smallest act should be permeated with reverence.

History is essential to our understanding of the present. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in time as a people, then we shall never fully be able to plan the present and the future. We need to know what roots are still alive. We need to know how things came to be so that we can project from here. We also need to know the failures of the past so that we can avoid repeating them.

Niekados nesišaipyk iš žmogaus, kur? myli ir kuris dar labiau myli tave, ir niekados jam nepriekaištauk! Tikr? meil? patiri tik kart? per vis? inkarnacij?.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Whenever you study or contemplate the Dharma, Rely not on the words, but on the meaning. If the meaning is understood, then regardless of the speaker's style, There will be no conflict.

He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.

Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.

What do you need to give me what I need?"... You're negotiating with your teenager not because you're a wimp, or because you're afraid of her, or because you don't care. No, you're negotiating with your teenager because imposing rules makes bad relationships worse, while negotiating solutions makes good relationships better.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.

Everything happens for a Reason.

Real love is about falling in like.

Knowing there's a reason for what happens also saves us from being filled with blame.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Love doesn't work like that, one or the other. Don't you know that yet?

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

It occurred to me that everyone's story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.