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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.

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Rapport, Mutual Understanding

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Kill a Mockingbird

Your impression of people is renewed every day. As you spend time with them and grow with them, you come to understand more.

Shizuka Hiratsuka

Even if you’ve never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don’t underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Mama always said that God is mysterious.

Meaningful Quotes

Do you understand pain a little now? If you don’t share someone’s pain, you can never understand them. But just because you understand them doesn’t mean you can come to an agreement. That’s the truth.

Pain's conversation with Naruto after the Death Star Technique.

Naruto: Shippûden

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Meaningful Quotes

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

on behalf of the author

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sympathy (compassion)

The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat their attempts until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition. I decided to test the only remedy I've come to have any faith in. Awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she's perfectly healthy, she'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

Veronika decides to die

Beautiful Quotes

I can hear you
You don’t need to talk

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

And it's beginning to get to me
That I know more of the stars and sea
Than I do of what's in your head...

It's Beginning to Get to Me

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

There are two ways to be understood: One is through true love, the other through pure reason.

Die Vermessung der Welt

Carl Friedrich Gauß