Quotes About Understanding

It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.

There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Many can argue - not many converse.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

We need to listen to one another.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.