#understanding

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#understanding #forgiveness

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#understanding #forgiveness

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#forgiveness #malice #suffering #understanding #forgiveness

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#friends #friendship #reflection #time #understanding

My life is like a dead language than no one knows, however, for some reason you speak it fluently and that is why I don’t feel alone. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#love #oneness #romance #seeing-me #understanding

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand. ↗

— Cressida Cowell

#understanding #friendship

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#god #hubris #impudence #understanding #art

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#honor #respect #understanding #friendship

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#great #i #i think #little #me

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#imagination #love #understanding #imagination