Quotes About Understanding

People need to continue talking until they get enough understanding to be able to genuinely leave it behind.

Not that he was any expert on the subject, but Matt believed he could tell a lot about a woman by observing the way she watched a sunset.

Matt felt vindicated. See . If he'd rushed things and let his passion get the upper hand he might not have learned whether she like beef.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

All distances are the same to those who don't meet.

human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.

My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.

Perhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn.

What I've learned of love, I've learned from you. I don't believe in anything, but I believe in you.

Read everything and be kind.

Science is so important because it's a way to find truth, but the truth doesn't depend on it. Reality exists outside of humans. Religion does not.

Así descubría la virtud paradójica de la lectura que consiste en abstraernos del mundo para hallarle un sentido

Il tempo per leggere, come il tempo per amare, dilata il tempo per vivere

Thérése y Jérémy cultivan, desde siempre, ese arte del quid pro quo que es la sal de sus relaciones. De acuerdo en todo, no se entienden en nada. Es su modo de soportar la condena perpetua de la fraternidad

To know a thing, dip yourself in it like pen and ink, let it write you in its own words. Elizabeth Ayres

All you have to do is circulate and listen. If you know what they're talking about, join in. If you don't know what they're talking about, then ask questions,' he relayed as if it was really that simple. 'People don't mind being asked questions. In fact, they like to show off their knowledge. What they don't like is someone pretending to know what they're talking about when they don't.

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That's who we teach!

Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?