Quotes about understanding-others

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

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.

Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.

If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can’t speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your abil

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

It's ok to understand other people. But it's not enough. Advertence is necessary too. Because it's easy to understand abstract person if you're not a victim but outside observer. Imagine you say to friend who needs your help: "I understand the man who stole from you because he was starved". Or that: "I understand that scumbag who raped you because his wife ran out on him and he wanted to blow off steam". Only most hard-hearted person can say that.

Pilar, if anyone, should have understood how awful it was to be surrounded by people who had their own version of the truth. People who wouldn’t listen to you long enough to know you at a

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

He who has little problems, shows little love. He who has overcome huge problems, has giant love. Because he understands what it means and won’t have others suffer like he did.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Neither sex is wrong in their communication both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

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.

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

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.

Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

Just because I understand does not mean I agree.

I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints.

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures.

No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

If I tell you I am upset about everything that's going on around me, you will probably ask me why, half listening, half wandering away in your own train of thoughts...If I tell you I am happy, you will probably not bother to know why, congratulating me and forgetting..I should rather tell you I am fine, satisfied, you will probably tell me your own issues then, for which I will be all ears

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

We look at other people's lives, & we see what looks like a beautiful, adventurous, wonderful or tragic life. But so seldom do we see or even understand that what we see isn't their lives. Especially nowadays with news feeds, & statuses, we see only the surface, with not hint at the inner workings.To me, it's like a movie. We see the culmination of ones efforts, work, hardships, difficulties, progress, & pains. On a big screen that is life, but so rare & seldom, do we every acknowledge nor see t

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bed; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom!

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be be careful!

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be careful!

People are far more revealing by the questions they ask than the answer they give. To get closer to understanding what is really on someone’s mind, answer their questions briefly so they ask follow-up questions. By their third question you’ll get a glimpse of their biggest fear or desire on the topic.

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.

When someone is hurt andwe hear ourselves saying"I don't understand, why"PAUSEAt the pause, ask "What am I missing here ?"At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting,get curious and believe their hurt stateAt the pause, tap into their heart and mind.Now see how this pause transforms the conversation.