Quotes About Understanding

He] accepted me for what I was and it wasn't fair of him not to give me the same chance to accept him in the same way.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

May those whose hell it is To hate and hurt Be turned into lovers Bringing flowers.

We hear with our ears; we listen with our intution and our heart.

We cannot attune if we assume certain feelings are right and others wrong. To attune to someone, we need neutrality toward all feelings, moods, and inner states and the fearless openness of mindfulness.

A lack of love means not receiving the five A's of adult love: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing us to be ourselves.

The ability to hear someone is really about trust, not simply about communication. A trust issue always lurks beneath a communication difficulty.

Where there is no love put love and you will find love.

In attention, you are heard and noticed. In acceptance, you are embraced as worthy, not compared to your siblings but trusted, empowered, understood, and fully approved of as you are in your uniqueness.

A declaration of our own history of trust is essential in understanding ourselves and in growing in intimacy with our partner.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Some have said that Grandfather and Father, along with Andrew Carnegie, invented modern philanthropy. That may be true, but it may also claim too much. What the two of them did was emphasize the need to move charitable activities away from treating the symptoms of social problems toward understanding and then eliminating the underlying causes. This led them both to embrace a scientific

He rolls his eyes when I mention the dog connection. "What is it with you and dogs?" "Dogs are like humans, only better in every respect," I say.

I suppose the best way to understand it is that when I first see a person, I see the face. But when I first see a dog, I see the dog.

But if I've learned one thing during our descent into dog rescue lunacy, it's that dogs bridge gaps between people. they smooth over the human condition, and they provide an extraordinarily valuable function. They take people of all political persuasions, religious faiths, and geographical locations and represent something that everyone can love.

A window let in light, which was a metaphor for knowledge and understanding.

Knowledge was the most valuable of all treasures. No wonder

Since the time of Justin, the dialogue between faith and reason, between faith and culture, has reflected two essential characteristics of the Christian intellectual heritage: (1) faith seeks understanding; and (2) intellectual inquiry invites a response of faith.

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Westerners become confused because they approach Russia with a Western frame of reference, not realizing that Russia is a universe based on a completely different set of values.

If you don't know what you are purchasing, you are just taking unnecessary risk. If you haven't done your homework to really understand the characteristics of an investment class, you are taking risk.