{"quotes":[{"text":"Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["accept","argue","calm","complain","condemn","conflict","controversy","debate","disagreement","discuss","dispute","fight","foot-in-mouth","forgive","mind","misunderstanding","peace","piece-of-mind","quarrel","quiet","rag","rage","regrets","remain-silent","row","subside","talk","tongue","whitewash","words"],"id":4398,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blessings","choices","compassion","empathy","faith","family","family-s-our-forever","fights","forgiving","healing","illness","learning","lessons","loss-of-family","loss-of-sister","love","mending","mental-disorders","misunderstanding","never-or-forever","obedience","redemption","religion","repairing","restoring","sisters","spiritual-journeys","spiritual-paths","tests","trials","wellness"],"id":6611,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, 'She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["bravery","comedy","misunderstanding"],"id":7108,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["answer","answers","critics","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","misconceive","misconception","misunderstand","misunderstanding","right"],"id":8622,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["attitude","attitude-towards-life","behavior","behaviour-change","different-perspective","indifference","misunderstanding","opinions","peace"],"id":9375,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and at the same time resilience of any communication. An inchoate impulse forms into a feeling that resembles but can never match the dreamy intensity of the original impulse. This feeling then articulates itself, but the words at best approximate a shadow of the feeling. I speak or write these words, and of course the person who receives them brings to that receiving his or her own connotations: Cinnamon, for example, may conjure different memories and may mean something different for you than for me. These words may then settle into feelings, leading finally, perhaps, to some impulse on your part. With so many layers of interpretation, it's no wonder we so often misunderstand each other. And this is between two people who speak the same language. How much more difficult understanding can be, then, when the people do not share a common cultural background, or native tongue? How much more than this may we misunderstand when we then hear a dog speak, or a tree or stone?","author":"Derrick Jensen","tags":["communication","culture","empathy","experience","misunderstanding","understanding","words"],"id":11333,"author_id":"Derrick+Jensen"},{"text":"Miss Mackintosh waved her arms wildly.'Oh, please stop, and let me guess,' she cried. 'I shall go crazy with joy if I'm right. It was an old Peerage, and so she found that Lady Deal was Helena Herman--'Whom she had seen ten years ago at a music hall as a male impersonator,' cried Diva.'And didn't want to know her,' interrupted Miss Mackintosh.'Yes, that's it, but that is not all. I hope you won't mind, but it's too rich. She saw you this morning coming out of your house in your bath-chair, and was quite sure that you were that Lady Deal.'The three ladies rocked with laughter. Sometimes one recovered, and sometimes two, but they were re-infected by the third, and so they went on, solo and chorus, and duet and chorus, till exhaustion set in.'But there's still a mystery,' said Diva at length, wiping her eyes. 'Why did the Peerage say that Lady Deal was Helena Herman?'Oh, that's the last Lady Deal,' said Miss Mackintosh. 'Helena Herman's Lord Deal died without children and Florence's Lord Deal, my Lady Deal, succeeded. Cousins.'If that isn't a lesson for Elizabeth Mapp,' said Diva. 'Better go to the expense of a new Peerage than make such a muddle. But what a long call we've made. We must go.'Florence shall hear every word of it to-morrow night,' said Miss Mackintosh. 'I promise not to tell her till then. We'll all tell her.'Oh, that is kind of you,' said Diva.'It's only fair. And what about Miss Mapp being told?'She'll find it out by degrees,' said the ruthless Diva. 'It will hurt more in bits.'Oh, but she mustn't be hurt,' said Miss Mackintosh. 'She's too precious, I adore her.'So do we,' said Diva. 'But we like her to be found out occasionally. You will, too, when you know her.","author":"E.F. Benson","tags":["humour","misunderstanding","neighbours","satire","tilling"],"id":16987,"author_id":"E.F.+Benson"},{"text":"In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["honesty","inquiry","insecure","insecurity","integrity","intent","intention","misunderstanding","questions","respect","truth","understanding"],"id":17997,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["misunderstanding","understanding"],"id":18253,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"When the conflict deepens, none will have peace either.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["divorce","misunderstanding","quarrels","war"],"id":19116,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":120,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}