Quotes About Understanding

That's what we both wanted. To be read. To be asked. To have someone in our lives we couldn't fool.

Fred was patient with me in the years that followed our first meeting. He taught me that taking one's time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

If parents can remember what it was like to be a child, they are going to be much more empathic with their own children.

Fred rightly reasoned that if we accept ourselves we are better equipped to accept our neighbor.

He taught me that taking one's time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

Despite his strength, Jim lost his battle with cancer. Fred understood that sometimes God's answer to prayer is no. But he understood something else too: "Jim gave us all an enormous gift by helping us understand the many forms of healing (not just physical) in this life.

He appreciated and represented the intricacies of life and showed an appreciation for complex and conflicting feelings. He wasn't naïve; he knew that seeing the best in ourselves so that we can see the best in our neighbor—an act that translates into harmonious relationships—is only possible because of forgiveness.

He appreciated and represented the intricacies of life and showed an appreciation for complex and conflicting feelings.

Frankly, I think that after we die, we have this wide understanding of what's real. And we'll probably say, 'Ah, so that's what it was all about.' Fred Rogers

If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

For some reason, it takes my brain a moment to process…the open-close symbols on elevators, which is which.

I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....

People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.

if I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back.

I didn't have time to tell Bracken to care for her. I didn't have time to tell Arturo that I knew why he was hard on me, and it was okay. I didn't have time to tell Green that he was the sun and the moon and the stars. The Goddess gave me just enough time to feel her pain, to let her know I loved her. I had just long enough to say goodbye.

I've loved him since I've known him, Mrs. Daniels. He just finally stopped fighting.

The world isn't made a better place by the unburdening of a heart.

When you get to that point where you notice a person's faults, you've got to decide if you can live with them or can't live without them.

Vuoi sapere perchè mi piaci? E' perchè prendi qualcosa che le persone disprezzano e lo tratti come se fosse umano

If you're decent to people, you'll usually find out they're decent people, too.

Kindness is not weakness, Malcolm. Forgiveness isn't lack of backbone. Forgiveness is the thing that lets human beings not strangle each other after a half an hour's acquaintance. It's not something you in particular should shit on, you know?

Sometimes the things that went on between two people were so private and so painful the the rest of the world needed to reserve judgement.

He had learned that sometimes, watching someone work or standing beside them, looking at stars or at bugs or at a sunset, was far more communicative than the eternal babble that sprung from his own wayward tongue.