Quotes About Understanding

Then you forgive her. That's what love is. Forgiveness. Judgment belongs to God Almighty. Not you.

Lisa Scottoline

I say sapore, sapere, to taste is to know.

But I understand it better than I can speak it.

All right already

It's not her fault she got hit.

there's other things

Lisa Scottoline

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

You're leaving, she said, rising to her feet. I knew it was coming. How? I'm your mother. You're the breath of my lungs and the beat of my heart. I know you very well.

I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else will.

To learn a different language is to learn a different way of living

When she reaches the ground, she looks from the old woman to me. A moment of confusion. Then recognition. I know her too, because I've seen traces of her in my face in the mirror. My mother. My a-ma.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.

La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo ho intuito.

Deep love-true-heart love-must grow. Back then I didn't yet understand the burning kind of love, so instead I thought about the rice paddies I used to see on my daily walks down to the river with my brother when I still had all my milk teeth. Maybe I could make our love grow like a farmer made his crop to grow-through hard work, unwavering will, and the blessings of nature. How funny that I can remember that even now! Waaa! I knew so little about life, but I knew enough to think like a farmer.

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

Don't blame yourself for things that maybe happened," she said.

No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.

But teaching a lesson isn't a part of friendship.