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.

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.

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

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

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

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

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

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.

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,...

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

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...

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

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

Your Temporary Santa, “He says presents aren’t important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say ‘I understand you.

Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

…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.

if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding

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...

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

If I tell you I am upset about everything that’s going on around me, you will probably ask me why, half listening, half wandering away in your own train of thoughts…If I tell you I...

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

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

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...

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!