Quotes About Understanding

You Write For Me? OR, You're Right For Me.

All relationships have one law : Never make the one you love feel alone, especially when your there.

Never try to change a person. We all evolve as life goes on. Love people as they are.

People can only love you as much as they love themselves.

If all that I would want to do was to sit and talk to you...would you listen?

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

but I didn't see the humor since I didn't know Maggie May from Sara Lee. I

It's logical that everyone wants to be in love. Then, for a while, life isn't taken up with the tedium of thinking everything through, talking things through. It's nice to be able to notice small objects or small moments, to point them out and to have someone eager to pretend that there's more to them than it seems.

Then the auctioneer introduced himself [,,,,]. He started to speak into the microphone, a maddening, jammed-up sequence of words that crashed like bumper cars, after which everything sorted itself into some kind of sense again, and after the fact you could understand most of what he'd said.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.

Live, laugh, love. When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell

They were getting to know not only the details of each other's lives, but getting to know one another - a different thing. The process of getting to know anyone is not merely a matter of listening, watching, and understanding. M. Maurois has pointed out how, in any new relationship, we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

Angela yelled. Realizing she was dangerously out of control—in the last couple of hours, she'd begun to understand why gerbil parents sometimes ate their young—she

When Fran had died and people had shared their own stories of grieving he'd wanted to hit them, to scream, I don't care if someone close to you died. Don't use my tragedy to wallow in your own. You cannot come close to knowing how I feel.

We were never soulmates, you know. We never lived in each other's pockets. But in a way, that was why it worked. We were so different that we learned from each other, there was something new to discuss when we did come together. But

In the old days she would have dug in her heels, but she was old and canny enough to realize there was no point starting battles you could never win.

It gave people the right to pity me. And in my opinion, there is nothing more degrading than pity.

She liked it when Joe stood up to her, as long as he didn't do it too often.

We're not the sort of couple who lives in each other's pockets. We live our own lives. It means we have something to say to each other when we finally get together.

Perez might irritate the shit out of him, but he was the best judge of character Taylor knew. He watched men like David Attenborough watched animals.