Quotes About Understanding

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person.

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Você foi, sob todos os aspectos, tudo o que alguém poderia ser... Se existisse alguém capaz de me salvar, seria você

The air is full of things we aren't saying, and I wonder if he feels it too.

I guess you can be yourself, whatever that means—the best and the worst of you. And they love you anyway. You can fight, but even when you're mad at them, you know they're not going to stop being your friend.

Come on. Let me have it. Don't disappear in there.' I mean inside herself, where I'll never get to her.

Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead? I don't know you, but I can guarantee you have some issues you can work on.

I guess now you know you're not the only freak." It's the nicest thing she's ever said to me.

And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

He is angry at the world outside this house, and that makes me love him even more.

I remember him standing next to me at Hoosier Hill, smiling out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he could see Oz. 'Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people..' So I decide to see it through his eyes.

I don't know him that well, but I know of him. Everyone knows of him.

We can't fight another person's battles, no matter how much we want to

Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead?

I barely have to say anything, not even, "I'm not ready." It's in the unwritten rulebook of life, under How to React When a Student Loses a Loved One and Is, Nine Months Later, Still Having a Very Hard Time.

I expect some fast reply, something flirty and flip, but instead he doesn't look up, just reaches for my hand and keeps reading. I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him-just a little-and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it.

Que sentimento horrível deve ser amar uma pessoa e não ter como ajudá-la.

all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

you're my interpreter in this world.

Im used to slowing down so that everyone else can catch up