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.
Joshua FerrisTags: understanding-others relationship
...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.
Philip J. HiltsTags: memory understanding-others personality emotional-walls
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...
Barack ObamaTags: politics religion understanding understanding-others respect tolerance civil-rights cruelty homosexuality understanding-oneself-and-others
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
Napoléon BonaparteTags: understanding-others twenty
Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.
Jay WoodmanTags: mistakes understanding understanding-others understand non-judgemental non-judgment empathise
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.
Shannon L. AlderTags: truth love learning lies perspective romance relationships judgement understanding understanding-others growth dishonesty beliefs broken-hearts hearts protection seeing-the-whole-picture
Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: compassion empathy sympathy understanding-others pity richelle richelle-goodrich
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.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: opinions understanding understanding-others judging scrutiny richelle richelle-goodrich judging-people critiquing
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.
Orson Scott CardTags: truth understanding-others understanding-oneself-and-others
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.
Nike ThaddeusTags: friendship forgiveness understanding understanding-others impression first-dates
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