“We will only love what we understand. We will only understand what we are taught.” -Baba Dioum
Tag Archives: Understanding
I Want To……
I Want To…
“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
I study your obscure language.”
—Alexander Pushkin
Veteran’s Tragic Suicide Note Leaves CNN Host Speechless, Forgive Me This Is Tough
Veteran’s Tragic Suicide Note Leaves CNN Host Speechless, Forgive Me This Is Tough
*Yet, I get condemned for stating the obvious. No one should EVER have to feel this way and I agree, the medical community is afraid to treat thanks to the DEA’s fear tactics. I’ve had two of my treating physicians paid visits by them for barely prescribing pain medicine to migraine and pain patients. How is it wrong to give a patient 5 pills because she’s moving to a new state and you don’t want her to end up in the Emergency Room? It is wrong to be a doctor and NOT be able to treat your patients as you see fit. After medical school and completing your residency, you’re licensed to be able to prescribe medication and, most importantly, help people. If you’re being crippled by the government, you might as well NOT go into such immense debt to become a physician.*
Understanding Is…
Life Can Only…..
Life Can Only…
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ―Søren Kierkegaard
Friendship Means…
To Understand O…
To Understand Or Not Understand…
“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, ‘I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are.’ They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about ‘If you loved me you would.” ―Elizabeth Wurtzel
He Who Does……
He Who Does…
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
―Elbert Hubbard
I am a firm believer in not responding to people when they’ve shown me what they truly are. It lowers me to their level, a place I do not belong. Some people believe that if you don’t respond, and you’re silent, that it means they’re right. Sometimes it does, it depends on the individual situation, but if I don’t respond, it probably means something else entirely. Something I’m way too polite to say at the moment.
You Don’t Have …
You Don’t Have To Say The Perfect Thing, Just Be Present
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” -Henri Nouwen
And The Moon Sees All 