107 Quotes About Understanding-oneself-and-others

I don’t hate my relatives or those whose names fill my address book. But I do not want to have lunch with any of them. It is not personal. I am not angry. Nor is this about being afraid. I am not shy. I do not have terrible manners.Do birds hate lips? Do Fijians detest snowplows? Being a loner is not about hate, but need: We need what others dread. We dread what others need.

A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated

I am responsible for what I said, I am not responsible for what you have not understood

Livet forstås baglæns, men må leves forlæns.

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that’s not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes...

There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.

Offenses offend, beware!

If God gives you comfort, extend a comforting hand unto others. If God saves you, extend a saving hand unto others