Quotes About Understanding

Pero incluso ellos conocían la diferencia en la vida real entre luchar y discutir.

Este capítulo te ayudará a distinguir entre una discusión y una lucha, y a decidir lo que deseas sacar de una discusión.

Así, cuando te enfrentes a un hombre enfadado, muéstrate serio y preocupado; no le grites «¡Venga, amargado!» Cuando una niña parece triste, la empatía implica parecer triste también; no significa decirle alegremente: «¡Anímate!»

Pretty agreeable of me, yes? The ancient Greeks gave a name to this kind of anticipatory concession, agreeing in advance to what the other person is likely to say: prolepsis, meaning

La discusión suponía para ellas un problema, no un medio para una solución. Las felices discutían. Las infelices luchaban.

I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant was the way love waits in ambush traps your well trained sense of control and tortures you into a confession you'd just as soon not make I now understand.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

For the value of history, and therefore of military history, is not in the facts it communicates or even in the principals it illustrates. The value of history is that it can provide fresh insight into the past and hence a better understanding of the present.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren't.

So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.

Robert Frost suggested (with his usual sly wit) that a person uneducated in the operations of metaphor was not safe in the world, should not even be let out of doors.

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.

Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong.

Understanding human agency and human accountability, a cardinal feature of the law is understanding the active sense of foraging for some coherence

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

why are you ending our engagement then?" "Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel) "I don't understand." "I know

His eyes tightened a little at the corners. "I told you a

You disgust me, all of you, with your happiness! With your life that must be loved at all costs. […] I spit on your idea of life! […] You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell! […] I do not want to understand. I am here for something other than understanding. I am here to tell you no, and to die. To tell you no and to die.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.