Quotes About Understanding

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are.

Solace is not meant to be an answer, but an invitation, through the door of pain and difficulty, to the depth of suffering and simultaneous beauty in the world that the strategic mind by itself cannot grasp nor make sense of.

In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all.

the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another

all friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

If forgiveness comes through understanding, and if understanding is just a matter of time and application then we might as well begin forgiving right at the beginning of any drama rather than put ourselves through the full cycle of festering, incapacitation, reluctant healing and eventual blessing.

The said question of the said animal in its entirety comes down to knowing not whether the animal speaks but whether one can know what respond means. And how to distinguish a response from a reaction.

But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

It's nothing to be ashamed of—often the greatest difficulty faced by people suffering from mental illness is society's inexcusable ignorance of the subject.

You know what the scariest part is about people like him? Everything he's doing makes perfect sense in his own mind.

She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like.

To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,

Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

El Señor guarde a los niños! Pues todos ellos tienen su Predicador que los persigue por el sombrío río del miedo y la imposibilidad de expresar lo que sienten y las puertas cerradas. Todos son mudos y están solos, porque no hay palabras para expresar el miedo de un niño, ni oídos que le presten atención, y, si las hubiera, nadie las entendería aunque las oyera. ¡El Señor guarde a los niños! Los niños lo soportan todo y superan cualquier obstáculo.

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.

The most significant gift our species brings to the world is our capacity to think. The most significant danger our species brings to the world is our inability to think with those who think differently.

We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems that we face in the world.

The fact that we are different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong. It just means that there's a different kind of right. —Faith Jegede When

The poet William Butler Yeats said, "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

Am I a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a Jew? I do not know . . . for Truth has set fire to these words.

Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push at it, stretch it, it will never be enough. You kick at it, beat at it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment you leave dying.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.