#standing

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering. She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#empathy #feelings #feelings-of-weakness #heartbreak #sympathy

It takes understanding to be outstanding ↗

— Pastor Simeon Nwani

#motivational #understanding #inspirational

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#apples #bedroom #convey #i #i can

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#born #leadership #needs #out #should

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best #best way #crowd #did #education

I can always forgive where I understand. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#understanding #forgiveness