Quotes about Understanding
Knowing and being known—by design we enjoy human connections, and those connections are forged over time through normal interactions and questions that gradually ask for more. Such connections are the foundations for mutual help, and they are helpful in themselves since they are expressions of love.
— Edward Welch
Love is able to see past the clutter of a disorganized life.
— Edward Welch
You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly
— Edward Welch
In our attempts to help, we can overinterpret suffering.
— Edward Welch
Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.
— Edward Welch
Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?
— Edward Welch
We don't aim to draw out problems so that we can be helpers. We are simply interested in knowing another person, which is a basic feature of everyday love.
— Edward Welch
To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.
— Edward Welch
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
— Albert Camus
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.
— Albert Camus
You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
— Albert Camus
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
— Albert Einstein