Quotes About Understanding

Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

By definition, a 'Sisterchick' is a 'friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and gives you a reality check when you're being a brat.

the best answers to prayers are the ones God doesn't answer.

I decided then that some secret delights will never be understood by the male species. Such joys are best shared only between girlfriends and should never be revealed to the unappreciative.

With Katharine, it seems, words are only her secondary means of communication.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school." Todd: "I never knew that." Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on the floor." Todd: "Uh-oh. Is this one of those issues they talked about in our premarital counseling? Should I hang up towels so you feel more loved?

When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.

Loving God and loving others are the only things that make sense in this world, Gavin. It's what we're made for, to love and be loved.

If we understood everything, we would be like God.

How she wished she'd asked Father more about this Jack Ludgrove instead of storming out in a huff.

it would probably be more accurate, far more fair, and more useful to posterity, to blame the nations at large for drifting into this war without any true understanding of what a modern war would be like. The excuse that they did not know may - just - be valid for 1914, but by 1916 it should have been very clear, certainly to the political leaders, that the war could not be 'won' in any meaningful way.

True acceptance of an individual as he is, without trying to change him through encouragement or manipulation or coercion, is a very high form of love, and very difficult for most of us to practice.

You're not alone in this. Even though it felt like you were more alone than anyone has ever been .

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. That's why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it's one of my rules to live by.

I bet if we all threw our problems in a huge pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is about. That's why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it's one of my rules to live by. There may be a reason why someone is having a bad day, there's often something that we can't see. She is not necessarily a bad person, just someone facing a bad situation.

And I think it's often very hard for close friends to understand that sometimes you want them to be there but you don't have to say anything, that their presence is as powerful as anything else.

But the best part of the evening was that there were whole hours when we sat around the fire pit and didn't say a word. We were together as a group, but they knew I needed silence. That can be very hard for friends.

You need to be surrounded by people whose voices echo your soul voice.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".

At my very lowest, just when I believed unhappiness would eat me alive, I surrendered. I didn't suddenly become happy all at once; it took time. But I grew through the pain, grew to a place where I finally found understanding, and through understanding I found peace.

I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.