Understanding Quotes
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How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
Rowan Williams
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Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.
Esther Hicks
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Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
Russell Baker
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
Your only job is to stay in your seat.
You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
Ajahn Chah
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It is not for us to judge those who might be confused or who have not the strength to change. What they need is our understanding and support.
Hans B. Ringger
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Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
Nicole Kidman
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The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.
David Bowie
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
Terence McKenna
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa
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There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
Carson McCullers
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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.
Sarah Dessen
