There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Quotes tagged ‘Understanding’
You’re complicated. You need someone who gets that about you.
I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it’s an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.
I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
It seemed like you could know me. Like you could understand anything I told you. And the more we spoke, I knew why. The same things excited us. The same things concerned us.
Once you’ve married, be strict but just with your wife, don’t allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: 'Don’t forget that I made you happy.'
Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.
There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood.
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
To thoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I’m only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and me, to be able to look upon it and me and all things with love and admiration and great respect.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
When one personality meets another for the first time, there is a period of mutual examination on the intuitive level of empathy and identification.
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.
Don’t judge everyone else by your limited experience.
When we love, we have no need to understand what is happening, because everything is happening inside us.
I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
I’m just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.