#standing

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. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#empathy #kindness #suffering #understanding-others #suffering

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-advice #understanding

Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG 262) ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#nora-grey #patch-cipriano #understanding

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. ↗

— John Green

#understanding

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [The Minotaur] ↗

— Albert Camus

#retreat #solitude #understanding

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#understanding #evil

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#understanding #understanding

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#understanding

She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen ↗

— Sondra Torres

#love #understanding #dreams

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#greed #insight #understanding #insight