Quotes About Understanding

When I'd first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior." -flesh and the mirror

Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?

I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

She was too young, too soft and new, to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short, straight, smooth lines of her own experience.

I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.

he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

She took to children like a duck to water, enough to make you wonder why she'd not had any of her own. I asked her about that, once, years later; she said she'd never, not until she picked us up and cuddled us that very first morning, known what men were FOR. 'I'd often wondered,' she said. 'When I saw you two, the penny dropped.

All we can do is the best we can and let others be who they are.

HaShem came to him in a dream at night and said, 'What should I give you?' And Solomon said, 'I am but a youth. I don't know how to go out or come in. So give Your servant a mind of understanding to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil—for who is able to judge this great people of Yours?

We took the words of God's guidance in the Torah and fashioned them into cages in which we felt secure. For

Know your enemy," my mother once told me. "Know them so you can be prepared to survive them.

we do not understand history, are we not bound to repeat the mistakes our fathers made?" "Some would say we will make those mistakes in any case," I answered, "for the same passions that motivated our fathers motivate us, and young people

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

Philip said that the older he got the more he realised that everyone in Dickens, without exception, was a real person, and quite a lot of them were among his friends.

It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you'd like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

You all right?" Scott queried. "Sure.  Why?" "You're quiet.  That's not normal." "Just thinking." "Don't pull a muscle.

Too often, we work on how first, rushing to fix a problem before we've even committed to the goal of solving it. But fully understanding your goal and why you want to pursue it before taking any action will make you more likely to achieve it.

No m'entenc ni jo mateixa, i és per això que ningú més no em pot entendre.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

A man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.