Understanding Quotes

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you.

~ Mary Haskell

If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on this side when you get to the other side, because you know how it feels like to be on this side. Sometimes though, relief comes too sudden and good that we tend to lose our sense of empathy for those still on this side, and it's amazing how we've forgotten so soon how it felt like to be on this side. How would it have felt if you were treated the same way you treat those who are on this side by those who were on the other side, when you were still on this side, now that you are on the other side?

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe you were wrong? Maybe, you only saw your point of view and you never once put yourself in the other person's shoes. Maybe, walking away from the senseless drama and spiteful criticism isn't the best thing to do. Maybe, for just once in your life you could wear another person's confusion, pain or misunderstanding. Maybe, your future doesn't require explaining yourself or offering an explanation for your indifference, but your character and reputation does. What if one day you find out that you didn't have all the information you thought you did? What if you find out that your presence was needed for healing? What if you only knew half of it and the other half was just your fear and anger translating everything you experienced? What if you were wrong? What if the same thing happened to you?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

~ Marquis De Sade

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

~ Criss Jami

Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

~ Brian A. Jackson

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

~ Brian A. Jackson

Whether we have happiness or not depends on the seeds in our consciousness. If our seeds of compassion, understanding, and love are strong, those qualities will be able to manifest in us. If the seeds of anger, hostility and sadness in us are strong, then we will experience much suffering. To understand someone, we have to be aware of the quality of the seeds in his consciousness. And we need to remember that his is not solely responsible for those seeds. His ancestors, parents, and society are co-responsible for the quality of the seeds in his consciousness. When we understand this, we are able to feel compassion for that person. With understanding and love, we will know how to water our own beautiful seeds and those of others, and we will recognize seeds of suffering and find ways to transform them.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

~ Criss Jami

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

~ Criss Jami

I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes, I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

~ Lorii Myers

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion and understanding. You become more of who you truly are, when you choose compassion and kindness. It must start from being kind to yourself.

~ Raphael Zernoff

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others

~ Abbi Glines

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

~ Rachel Hartman

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.

~ Jennifer Skiff

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

~ Maya Angelou

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.

~ Piero Gheddo

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Knowing is important, but understanding is essential for wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.

~ Kim Harrison

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

~ Shannon L. Alder

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

~ Og Mandino

From heart to hearta heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven.Bereft. It is easier to enter heaventhan to pass through each others' eyes

~ Bill Knott

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

~ Sandra Lake

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple, albeit difficult to find.

~ Criss Jami

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.

~ Masashi Kishimoto

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

~ Carson Mccullers