“Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.”
“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can t understand it.”
“Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.”
“People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”
“Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.”
“Instead of gearing up for a fight, try gearing up to listen. A fight will gain you nothing of worth. Listening, however, will grant insight into another person’s perspective, which may well gain you a valuable gem of understanding.”
“You don t get it, do you? Person A understands Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A. (...) it s not a mistake, most people would call that love, if you think you want to understand me.”
“Happiness lies in having a friend whose presence is rich in understanding.”
“The facts are not always discussed, sometimes they are realized.”
“There is no such thing as monsters in this world. There are only human beings who are wounded.”
“I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.”
“Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant”
“Can you start a movement in your land that will encourage men and women to begin to think, to begin to make sound judgement and informed decisions? Will you bring illumination to your people? Will you facilitate understanding amidst those whom you live with? The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.”
“It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom”
“Possession without understanding leads to loss.”
“With her, it’s different. I never even realized just how much I was missing until we really got to know each other. She lets me talk. She doesn’t rush me. She doesn’t tell me to calm down or feed me bullshit lines or tell me everything will be fine. When I’m trying to get things off my chest she doesn’t make the conversation about her or her own problems. She understands. I can tell. She doesn’t have to say a word. I can look into her eyes and know she gets it. She gives a shit about me in a way no one else ever has.”
“Her eyes . . . they were much like her father’s. They carried within them a knowledge of the storms always rumbling and flashing on the horizon. An understanding of these times, the good and the bad. A . . . a seeing. He didn’t know what else to call it. Not a gathering of the facts, of the patterns that he sought. It was something different. Something he couldn’t name. But something that made him think she understood things he didn’t”