Quotes About Understanding

But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel

She understood now, how you turned away until you couldn't. Until the pain of knowing and doing nothing was greater than the fear of what might come next.

There was and always had been a drive within me to know the truth of things.

After all, beneath the surface of it, isn't that what we're all looking for? We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?

For my parents, Joe and Virginia Miscione We never understand what it means to be a parent until we are parents ourselves. I love you, Mom and Dad. Thanks for everything … then and now.

They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are

She just wanted to love and to be loved. She just didn't know what love looked like

My dad and I were in the kitchen, bent over the table while he tried to help me with my trigonometry homework—which, PS, addled my brain and has yet in life to reveal its practical application.

But I think how we treat any one person is how we treat the world

I love the way Beck loves. If everyone loved like she did, the world would be a better place.

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?

Story is life, Miss Graves," he said. She'd heard him say that a million times. She finally understood what he meant.

That's everyone. No one's perfect, and no one needs to be.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, none will suffice.

Daily, she forgave his flaws, just as she knew he forgave hers. Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

Meditation is the key that opens the door to all the knowledge and understanding in life—certainly to our current lives and also to the many other lives we have led before. What

It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed.

Friends first. Even before Brett? Always, Bekka said. Her lively freckled face was dead serious. Wow, Melody said in surprise. They really were friends. Hearing it helped her feel it. And feeling it was like sinking deeper into a warm bath.

She's gay?" "No." Addie reached for the burnt bagel, took a bite. "But she is human.

Love is accepting someone for who they are, not who they'll be once you change them. Because guys won't change unless they want to, and most of them don't want to. If you think otherwise, you're in for a shit-storm of disappointment.

No one knows the weight of another's burden

Grievous words stir up anger.

They sought to pummel His pride, not understanding He'd laid it aside at birth, when He gave up heaven and came to earth.

No one knows the weight of another's burden. GEORGE HERBERT