understanding-oneself-and-others

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

When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.book: stuff i think about

Understanding breeds empathy.

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first

To be honest about it, I didn__ even always like Sharley. Maybe that__ the way it is with friends. Maybe the liking isn__ the most essential part of being friends. Maybe it__ the sticking by. Maybe it__ the impression of yourself you get through your friend__ eyes. Or maybe it__ all the little lessons you learn.

As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn__ have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

Your own guilt is your own fault.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

If others are judgmental and do not appreciate your life's work, don't be dejected. Try to see the incapability of others who are unable to understand the things you understand, and appreciate the capability of seeing something which is not visible to others.

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

Life is a chain of interrelated puzzles.Pain and Sorrow are some necessities to greater heights and people may be the architects of our woes. We may develop some hatred for such people through whom the woes of life came our way but when we get to the point where we fully understand why sorrow and pain came our way, we ought to be grateful to those through whom the woes that propelled us to our greatness came.

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.