Quotes About Understanding

But, knowing they had had the best of love, they clung to what remained. Love lingered – by way of long conversations at night into those stark hours when the mind thins and sharpens and the borrowings from dreams become the stuff of all life, by way of deep and intimate kindnesses they developed toward each other, by way of their laughing at the same absurdities and thinking the same things noble and the same things sad.

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

I tried to go then, but they wouldn't hear it; perhaps my presence made them feel more satisfactorily alone.

Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space.

No... no... We never forgive those we can understand... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all...

Books mean more than people to me anyway.

Similarly we are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity--we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the

Çok genç ve toy günlerimde babam?n verdiÄŸi bir öÄŸüt akl?mdan hiç ç?kmad?. "?çinden ne zaman birini eleÅŸtirmek gelse," demiÅŸti, " bu dünyada herkesin senin sahip olduÄŸun üstünlüklerle doÄŸmad???n? an?msa, yeter.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

U mojim mla?im i tanko?udnim godinama otac mi je dao savjet na koji se u mislima ?esto vra?am. -Kad god osjetiš želju da nekoga osudiš - kazao mi je - sjeti se samo toga da nisu svi ljudi na svijetu imali onih prednosti koje si ti imao.

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.

one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on YOU with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Like most women she liked to be told how she should feel

Az ember vagy elfogadja Hollywoodot olyannak, amilyen, mint például én tettem, vagy megvetÅ'en legyint rá, ahogyan olyasmire szokás, amit nem értünk.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

I could settle down if women were different, he said. If I didn't understand so much about them, if women didn't spoil you for other women, if they had only a little pride. If I could go to sleep for a while and wake up into a home that was really mine - why, that's what I'm made for, Paula, that's what women have seen in me and liked in me. It's only that I can't get through the preliminaries any more.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway, interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. What's that? demanded Maury sharply. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip. Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo que he tenido en cuenta desde entonces. Cada vez que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien - me dijo-, recuerda que no todas las personas de este mundo han tenido los mismos privilegios que tú.

Il existait entre nous une complicité si rare que nous nous comprenions à demi-mots