Quotes About Understanding

I wanted to tell you somethin, and I have been workin my mind so the words will tumble out in a straight line. You know how that can be, John. I do, Barnum. Just set them words one by one and they'll do fine and we'll get where we got to go.

Que tengamos diferentes puntos de vista no implica que tengamos que ser enemigos, ¿sabes? Sea como sea, las cosas no son tan simples.

I don't want you to marry an ignorant man; and believe me, a happy marriage is a sharing of minds as well as of other things.

Cruelty is the opposite of love,' said Patrick, 'not just some inarticulate version of it.

Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,' said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.

made him more conscious of how little experience he had of saying what he meant.

The Talking Heads pulsed from every speaker. 'The centre is missing,' gasped David Byrne, and Patrick could not help agreeing with him. How did they know exactly what he was feeling? It was spooky.

They had never met, but she had come to understand what had driven Victor's wife to seek refuge in a full set of Snoopy mugs.

Other people knew what they were meant to say, knew what they were meant to mean, and other people still - otherer people - knew what the other people meant when they said it.

The trouble with not being a psychopath. Every avenue was blocked.

Now listen more carefully to depression. Like all feelings, it is a kind of language. Guilt says, "I am wrong." Anger says, "You are wrong." Fear says, "I am in danger." Depression, too, has a message, but the message is usually not that simple. "Whereas some emotions are clear and unambiguous, depression's language is more heavily encrypted. It might take some decoding before it is understandable, but it is worth the effort. RECONSTRUCTING

Love is able to see past the clutter of a disorganized life.

You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly

Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.

In our attempts to help, we can overinterpret suffering

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?

We don't aim to draw out problems so that we can be helpers. We are simply interested in knowing another person, which is a basic feature of everyday love.

To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.

Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of each bird's call, of a child's secret thoughts in her mother's womb, of the measured rhythmical time of every man and woman's breath, of the true colors of the inside of the moon, of the larger miracles in small things, the deeper mysteries.

Even from those very first hours, Claire was an easy and quiet child. It was as though she already knew that she could not afford to be picky or make demands.

And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.

Your son is my friend,...He is my very terrible and imperfect and dear friend.

I didn't feel guilty about burning my mother's name anymore. I knew my hurt and hers were links in a long chain and if she hurt me, it was because she was hurt, too.