Quotes About Understanding

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Ei se että tunnistaa vääryyden, vaan että sietää sen.

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.

Don't shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other's hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.

I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the late" so and so. I'm sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn't just late—they're not even coming!

In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.

Love means never having to say you're sorry for a minor stab wound.

Those who have to use an API must be able to understand it.

I didn't like the people who just wanted to hear about the terrible things that had happened to me. But the friends who wanted to bask in my fondest memories of the Prockses made me feel special, inviting me into my own sense of knowing a right from a wrong.

Feeling valued and known are also part of this belonging. If a family claims you as their own but you don't really feel that they know you or see you for who you are, you'll feel like an outsider within your own family.

In a happy home, there aren't continuing crises you need to solve (or wonder how to endure when you're too young to solve anything). People aren't stuck in power struggles. There aren't silent or not-so-silent wars between family members. In a happy home you're not all holding your breath. You can relax and be yourself.

Verbal mirroring involves saying things like "You're really angry!" or "You're sad right now." Verbal mirroring helps a young child identify feelings and helps people of all ages feel heard. The process isn't limited to feelings; qualities are mirrored as well. "You're a pretty girl" and "My, aren't you smart!" are other examples.

Their interactions are like passing a shuttle of yarn back and forth, weaving a connection between their hearts.

When children are not shamed for undeveloped skills but rather are loved quite fully just for being who they are, then competence becomes less important.

Don't think a woman can fully understand the power a man feels when he takes." (Witt Long)

Sleep is when the brain processes everything. It's when we delve deepest into that well.

Every Christian in every age has been tempted to paper over scripture's cracks, explain away its oddities, show it's no different or more demanding than what we hearers already think we know about God and the world. This is a mistake. Scripture is spectacularly odd.

Modern, technique-based ways of reading have their place, but reading scripture is not complete until the church loves God and neighbor more.

But failure to gain significant and sustained political backing, relentless persecution, and other factors still not fully understood brought the Manichaean world crashing down. One

Purity is not about seeing less of the body, but about seeing more of the person.

No matter how perfect a man seems at first, he'll eventually get on your nerves. If you hope to establish lasting love, you must learn to love beyond the feelings.

understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.

It was funny how he felt more and more generous toward Fabyan by the year. You get older and want to connect to the people who understand. You try to speak with the young and find that something is wrong with your ears. They use their own slang, their own code, and you start to feel nostalgic about your former enemies, who at least shared the same intense moment on earth and spoke words you could understand