Quotes About Understanding

She [Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

Angry people are not always wise.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

The idle mind, which demands rules, i.e. recipes for making correct sentences, and shirks the subtler task of understanding the speaker's point of view and living into his emotion will never either use or understand aspects aright. If the speaker is living into the action, sympathizing with it, he will use imperfective, if he stands outside and merely states a fact or a judgment he will instinctively use the perfective

she wants her own version of fulfilment. And I want that for her too.

now he knows

he realized he would only get that when they had reached some kind of accord, where painful subjects could be addressed without instantly causing defensive anger.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Have you noticed how we are presented with the same lessons, over and over and over, before a tipping point is reached? The lessons we need to learn circle round us, closing in, until finally we are ready to take them in. Take them in. Those are the words that matter, because until I had embodied the lessons I was supposed to learn, absorbed them into the warp and woof of my being, they didn't "take"; they remained a head trip and didn't lead to changes in my behavior.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

Jei vaikyst?je tav?s nemyl?jo, tu nemok?si myl?ti vaiko. Meil? reikia patirti anks?iau. Gali ?skaudinti iš nežinojimo.

But it's true, she thought, nobody really knows a thing about another's past. Why should we? Different worlds we all inhabit from the womb.

I was seeing something I didn't understand and did not want to. No I wasn't. I was seeing something I had always understood and wanted to understand better.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves.

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves.