#understanding

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

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#understanding #writing #forgiveness

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. ↗

— Renata Adler

#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#achieved #attained #cannot #only #through

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

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#been #constant #deal #humanity #i

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#chef #cooking #difference #difficult #even

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#always #among #courageous #enthusiastic #fellowship

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that. ↗

— Jill Dando

#friends #go #how #like #limit

Our understanding is correlative to our perception. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#perception #understanding