Quotes About Understanding

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out.

The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution.

El primer propósito en la vida debiera ser agradar a Dios con tu vida, vivir para complacerlo. Cuando logres entender por completo esta verdad, sentirte insignificante nunca más será un problema para ti.

We must remember that it was God who chose to give us different personalities, backgrounds, races, and preferences, so we should value and enjoy those differences, not merely tolerate them. God wants unity, not uniformity. But for unity's sake we must never let differences divide us. We must stay focused on what matters most — learning to love each other as Christ has loved us

If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. - Teddy Sumner

Mistake number one: don't ever expect a woman to do what you think she's going to do. Mistake number two: don't ever tell her what to do because that's a surefire way of making sure she doesn't. - cowboy John

to it. "Okay," he said. "Now I believe.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.

Reading brings the world into your heart

stable competitive forces—take the time and effort to deeply understand these forces, and voilà, you can create a road map for your other decisions that is likely to last for some time. The emphasis in strategy was therefore analytical: because industries were assumed to be relatively

Regardless of how one may feel about specific doctrines of other faith traditions, this fact alone—their service to millions of fellow human beings—makes them worthy of our deep respect. Their profound benefit to others is really the ultimate reason each of us, believers and non-believers alike, must accord deep respect to the world's great faith traditions.

The nature of being a minority is to explain, ad nauseum, how you see the world, assuming the majority can take time away from their own self-indulgence to listen.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here I am," but to write a novel, hold it up and say, "Here YOU are.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

Anyone can ask questions," said Mr. Wonka. "It's the answers that count.