Quotes About Understanding

corresponsales reina una idéntica ausencia de ley. Pero mi tendencia natural me empujaría a no conocerles, menos por prudencia que por esa razón sublimemente expresada en un prefacio proustiano: la lectura permite descubrir al otro conservando esa profundidad que sólo se tiene cuando estás solo.

Pardonnez-moi, je ne parviens pas à comprendre votre peinture. Pourriez-vous m'expliquer? - Il n'y a rien à comprendre, rien à expliquer, répondit-il avec dégoût. Il y a à ressentir. - Précisément, je ne ressens rien. - Tant pis pour vous

Aimes l'autrui comme tu aimes toi-même

Le silence est la plus belle preuve de l'amour.

D'ailleurs, moi je trouve qu'il ne faut jamais juger car qui sommes-nous pour juger

J'aimerais que vous cessiez de me raconter ce que vous auriez fait à ma place. Personne n'est à ma place, personne n'est à la place de personne. Quand quelqu'un prend pour vous un risque dont vous seriez incapable, ne prétendez pas le comprendre, encore moins le juger.

Il y a tant de gens qui poussent la sophistication jusqu'à lire sans lire. Comme des hommes grenouilles, ils traversent les livres sans prendre une goutte d'eau.... - Ce sont les lecteurs-grenouilles. Ils forment l'immense majorité des lecteurs humains, et pourtant je n'ai découvert leur existence que très tard. Je suis d'une telle naïveté. Je pensais que tout le monde lisait comme moi; moi, je lis comme je mange.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Las cartas de amor se escriben empezando sin saber lo que se va a decir, y se terminan sin saber lo que se ha dicho. –Jean Jacques Rousseau

the eye does not see, what the mind does not know.

I don't know what to say." "Say yes, Mistress McLeod." Ada shook her head. "I can't allow you to come calling, Mr. Bevins." "I see." He shook his head. "No, I don't see. I thought, that is . . . Why not?

But talking about the best bond, then it has to be my mother. I fight with her as much as I love her. Many a times after fighting we instantly start laughing because we know no amount of bickering can ever weaken our bond.

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

If you are good friends with someone, you get to know them better and their strengths and weaknesses. You have that respect for each other, and you learn the way one another play.