In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
People’s lives can become quite difficult when they don’t understand that the spirit that lives in them...lives in all of us. Humanity...we are one☺
Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all. p 60
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
This was...This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.
You’re a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I’m going to trust that you know your own mind.
Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.
I didn't understand what it was about men—not all men, but a good portion of them—that turned a good, solid “NO” into an “I'm just playing coy; try harder.
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.
This mix of love and hate, this blend of trust and hurt I have for him is so confusing even I can't understand it. He leaves, and I break.
She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.
Let understanding, compassion, and kindness be the foundation of our religion and Earth be our place of worship.
By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.
Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on...
That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldom did, she’d come to understand
When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.
I don't know why Rachel is the way she is, but I hope one day she will get over it. She may be hiding something none of us understand.
Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.
