Understanding Others Quotes

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

SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.

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.

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.

Just because I understand does not mean I agree.

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

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

You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.

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

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 key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

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

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

Why don't we pay more attention to little children and be nice to each other.

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...

May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

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

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.

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

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

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

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.

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.

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

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

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

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.

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

Love endures every circumstance; Love never loses hope, never loses faith and never gives up.

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

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.

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 all about them that can be told; even if they are imperfect or unreal they do not contain any secrets, whereas our friends do and must, mutual secrecy being one of the conditions of life upon this globe.

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 the directorial point of view. The metaphorical behind the screens.So while we view others lives with a romantic envy, sweet longing, disheartened sympathy, or joyous reverence. We are so oblivious to the fact that their lives take the same trials, hardships, wonders, difficulties, & joys as we, it's merely manifested in a different on screen production. My longing, is to see that which is off screen. The inner workings, mundane & trivial, as well as the intense & breathtaking because without it, the picture it culminated in would not be.If we only take things at face value, we'll miss the wonders of the inner working. That which lies beyond sight, hidden away within. While it is what appears without that we all see, that which lies within makes what we see make sense.And it's in understanding someone's life & situation, that you can come to value their life & them.

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.

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

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

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.

It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering.

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

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

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.