176 Quotes About Understanding-others

Writing allows us to get the painful experiences out and find a framework in which to understand and live with them.

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others.

Those who suffer are egoistic, angry, unjust, and cruel, and less able to understand one another than really stupid people. Misfortune, far from uniting people, separates them, and even when it might be supposed that similarity of misfortune ought to bring people together, they show themselves a great deal more unjust and ruthless than do those who are comparatively content.

Honestly, if I can’t clearly understand the workings of a young innocent girl, like Ami, then how can I ever possibly expect to understand any other women? That chiefly was what was on my mind at that moment. Seriously, why should things which should be simple, like relationships between two people, be so complicated? Still, it doesn’t matter if we go a bit wrong, because every time we go wrong in any relationship, if we care, we will always go in search of the solutions.

You probably have your own scenes you've lived through---scenes where you think that if only people knew what was really going on, they might cut you some slack and help you.

Maybe you've thought that as a Christian you have to smile and pretend to be okay when someone asks you how you are doing. Perhaps you think that if you're grieving, then you're dishonoring God. This isn't so.