Quotes About Understanding

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.

God's love shines on anyone who understands the limits of endurance, and allows forgiveness

So many needing so much to communicate what amounted to so little.

Because our minds process information almost solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category and lies outside of the realm of our analogies.

then in that moment that I'd begun to love him. Because he didn't see the world like I saw the world. He didn't see the traps. Because he made me rethink even simple words like disgusting or beautiful.

You never know every part of yourself because you never encounter yourself in all situations.

You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.