Quotes About Understanding

Remember, the point of doing this [personality inquiry] is not to pigeonhole yourself with a four-letter type but to get clear on important aspects of your makeup--your personal blueprint. Use this inquiry as a mirror to see yourself more clearly, Don't accept the results as truth. Use them to find clues,

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions, which seems such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

It is true, mountains everywhere are mountains, water everywhere is water, sky everywhere is sky, and men everywhere are men. But nevertheless, if seated before the Alps, you attempt to picture the Himalayas, something inexplicable but convincing will be lacking.

There are always differences, tensions, paradoxes between what a text says (or what an author wants to say, or thinks s/he is saying) and what a text does.

A text always remains in crucial ways 'imperceptible'.

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

It's madness really that society expects a newly bereaved person to jump through so many hoops.

Oh, you can't hate people forever, can you? Sooner or later it always becomes clear that however awful they were to you, they were still trying to do their best. Nobody sets out to be awful, do they? But we're all this collection of traumas and hurts and dysfunctional mumbo-jumbo trying to be functional and logical and wise.

We value cleverness and intelligence and strength. Money, too. But nice is incredibly special. And it's not so easy to be this way all the time, you know? Other people are very difficult. It takes a lot of effort to understand them and stay nice despite everything.

As humans, we're designed to be able to love people despite their imperfections, and that's just as well really, because as a race, we do seem to have so many of them.

I often think that if men realised how much time you spend as a woman pleading with men – pleading with them to stop doing what they're doing, or pleading with them to let you do whatever needs to be done – they'd understand a lot more about what our lives are like.