Quotes About Understanding

For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life.

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

In language I combine my flesh with yours, and you with mine; my flesh is tender, my skin aches from knowing you

I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.

I still love you, for I see your soul

I wish you didn't have to go through things I've been through.

because you already know what I mean. You read my mind.

I am able to reach someone by thinking towards them, partly in words. I send forth my thoughts.

I don't think this is about love; you are telling me we need a new description.

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

though you seem so emotional you have no feeling

you need to know that our interpreta- tion of the past can't be right.

Without any deity but us without any need but to know Each other's minds again after our presumed deaths reunited

O mapa astral não é o território, e você não pode comer um menu.

Com muita frequência, muita frequência mesmo, astrólogos e terapeutas podem cair no próprio jargão e falar dos seus clientes e pacientes de um modo padronizado. As pessoas se tornam 'casos', e o profissional cai naquilo que Martin Bubler chamava de atitude do 'Eu-isso' em vez de na atitude do 'Eu-tu'.

Essa iconoclastia ainda espreita em toda parte, e o diabo é o literalismo. Quando tomamos as coisas literalmente, aniquilamos o poder dos símbolos de nos fazer percorrer os vários níveis de entendimento.

It is past time everyone sees Negro girls can be touched by white hands without lust or anger. If Martha loses her show, that is nothing compared to what Negro girls lose every day when people don't understand that.

We were copacetic.