Quotes About Understanding

Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.

The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.

The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

When we have rigid theories about what makes people the way they are and we project our theories onto patients and clients, insisting that our reality is their reality, we do the same thing their parents did. This is the wounding shadow of authority that says, 'I know what your story is and I know its meaning,' and it robs the person of the opportunity to discover this. This is a risk for anyone in a leadership role.

But as Ram Dass once said, you know, if you think you're enlightened, go spend a weekend with your parents.

A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought

She felt the press of friendly hands, the murmur of friendly voices. No one minded. Everyone understood. As

Les mots visibles sont comme des points de repère dans l'étendu. La signification de chacun d'eux est à la fois ponctuelle et tourbillonante; le sens nait de leur rapprochement comme l'éclair du choc électrique des nuages.

le langage l'engage.

Conner thought he understood how pride could back up in somebody, get turned around and come out as meanness. But that didn't make it any easier to put up with.

Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while something clicked.

He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.

But it was hard not to think of her mother as she moved from the sink to the oven and back again, tasting and chopping and doing her best impersonation of her mother. She felt, not a presence, exactly. Something more earthbound, a better understanding, perhaps, of her mother and the life she lived. The endless small chores, the worries, never enough time, and always the barely movable obstacles of her husband and children.

They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who would understand that, if she could make no better sense of understanding it herself?

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

As you know, men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

you've either got a brain or you haven't. If you have, then you don't need me to spell things out to you. If you haven't, there's no point in talking to you.