Quotes About Understanding

Try not to take it personally if the mother criticizes you or tells you to stop doing something that you expected to be helpful. Just say, "Sorry," and stop doing it. Don't try to explain why you did it or express frustration with her. She is really saying that labor is so difficult right now that nothing helps. You are the safest person for her to lash out at. Later, she will probably apologize.

And not telling anyone anything whenever possible is the secret of a happy marriage, in my experience.

And then she said, "that's what love is. Still loving someone, in spite of knowing the bad things.

Esta vida que vivimos no es más que confusión, no es más que una fecundidad ilimitada, y eso es demasiado. Es demasiado y no lo podemos entender. Porque no alcanzamos a ver más que nuestra pequeñez, nuestra insignificancia, y porque todo lo grande es demasiado grande.

Förr hade jag hemliga drömmar att det vore möjligt att lägga ihop allting, så att allting blev färdigt, tillslutet. Att till sist kunna säga: så var det, det var så det gick till, detta är hela historien. Men det vore ju mot bättre vetande.

I'm sorry I laughed...I know it isn't funny for you. It was incredibly stupid of me to laugh. Does it hurt a lot anywhere? 'Not really,' I said. 'Only a bit in your soul?' 'Maybe a bit.' 'Let it sink,' he said. 'Just leave it. You can't use it for anything.

I can understand that,' Jim said. And Tommy

Basil was happy to have me home. He considered the manner in which I ignored him a kind of attention. He and I were not so different.

It was the one place that I knew more about than anyone else. I wondered if everyone needed such a place, if everyone could have such a place, if my daughter would ever have such a place.

I really loved your mother. I was sad when she didn't come back, but, like I said, I understood and still think it was for the best. For her at least. It really fucked you up. Not so badly as I might have guessed, though. I mean, you've grown up to be successful and well adjusted and, of course, unhappy, the way a man is supposed to feel in this world. Just pulling your leg, son.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Teach me half the gladnessThat thy brain must know,Such harmonious madness,From my lips would flow,The world should listen then, as I am listening now.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom

It's not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Reason respects the differences, and Imagination the similitudes of things.

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human fantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning. Epipsychidion

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

bond of sympathy between him and Jock,

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Historiography -- commonly and often simultaneously defined as the study of historians' scholarship, how history has been and is contrived, the history of historical writing, and the body of historical scholarship on historical subject matter -- is, therefore, essential to understand when studying history.