Quotes About Understanding

Let us live without hate among those who hate

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

When Anna went to school, English sounded to her like pebbles dropping into shallow water.

I did not have any magnificent jewels to give you, but I hoped you would understand that I would give you the world if I could.

to answer . . . is, 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund

He'd misjudged her, badly.

his man" with his

I was both fed up with explaining and desperately craving an explanation.

Katharine: I can't keep up with you! Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself. - Death on the Family Tree

Children who are not loved themselves often find it difficult to love others.

Believe only when you grasp the consequences of your belief.

Truth comes to us in resemblance, in shade. In moonlight. In grasping what exists through what we cannot make exist.

Abigail, I know your body as I know my own. It was always mine and it still is.´´

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

Their eyes had seen so much that they no longer distinguished between dream and reality. And they had so few illusions they were through asking questions of anyone, even of themselves.

Réchauffe ta parole avant de la dire. Parle dans ton cœur. Savoir parler c'est savoir retenir sa parole. Parler vraiment c'est d'abord astiquer du silence. Le vrai silence est un endroit de La Parole. Écoute les vrais Conteurs.

The righteous man will never understand the grace of his forgiveness; the sinner will never quite get over the immeasurable grace of forgiveness.

What gentle, loving, and patient creatures we ought to be, when we fully realize what grace does for us.

Conversion is a god-thing, but ought we not give God a bit of time to reveal his majesty?

and they don't have to know about a lot of things that ordinary mortals just don't have to know about!

I'm a hopeless conversationalist. I'd always rather listen.

I, for one, find it difficult to picture adolescent Jesus looking up suddenly one day from a page of Job or Chronicles and exclaiming, "Wow, what an insight! That really does make sense!" Jesus was not "working out" a religious theory. He was taking possession of his own identity.

Instead of seeing sex as the most important need, coaddicts often believe, "Sex is the most important sign of love.

People don't enter conversations, work or social, with the same intentions. You must understand and cater to that.