Quotes About Understanding

Cea mai minunat? femeie din lume este cea care te iube?te cu adev?rat ?i pe care o iube?ti cu adev?rat. Nimic altceva nu conteaz?.

the skills of good listening are generally not taught to trainees in the art of psychotherapy. The would-be therapist learns to theorize and analyze, to diagnose and prognosticate, to interpret and interrogate. But not to listen.

Do not answer with the answer of silence! Do not attack one who does not attack you.

When you drink with a drunkard. Take when his heart is content. THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2 Fragment

Truly, he who is yonder will be a wise man.

The scribe is regarded as one who hears, For the hearer becomes a doer.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Age iswisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.

But there is a kindness here, a complicated kindness. You can see it sometimes in the eyes of people when they look at you and don't know what to say.

Man sollte nie jemanden anlachen, der vorher nicht wenigstens gelächelt hat.

Ljudi ?itaju kako ho?e (da ?itaju), a ne kako je napisano." (Zapisi iz godine 1933, Djetinjstvo 1902-03 i drugi zapisi, str. 286.; Sabrana djela Miroslava Krleže, sv. 27, Zora, Zagreb, 1972.)

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. "This one worries me, Ranee. She's very secretive.

You read her diary! That's wrong, Ma!" Ma closes the incinerator door and raises her palms in the air like she's praying. "I have to find out what's going on in her head, don't I? It's my duty to keep her safe." "You'll make her dangerous instead," Starry answers.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make 'em think.

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

Não faz sentido... A maneira como você fala não é humana... Nada disso é humano, apenas ciência e livros, coisas presas em garrafas e caixas. O que você sabe sobre amar alguém?

Eu não compreendo o amor — disse Holmes com tristeza. — Nunca aleguei compreender.

Nunca senti um vazio tão incompreensível dentro de mim, e só então, enquanto meu corpo se erguia do banco, comecei a entender quão absolutamente sozinho eu estava no mundo.

Parece, ou melhor, é que às vezes as coisas acontecem para lá da nossa compreensão, minha querida, e a realidade injusta é que esses eventos, sendo tão ilógicos para nós, destituídos de qualquer razão que lhes possamos atribuir, são exactamente o que são e infelizmente, nada mais, e acredito, acredito mesmo que essa é a ideia mais difícil com que todos nós temos de viver.

There's things you've forgotten. There's things you should know.