Quotes About Understanding

She said, hoping to soothe him with a little reason, which proved that she knew nothing about love.

We don't agree and we never shall, so we'll be good friends all our lives, but we won't go and do anything rash.

Oh, Mother, help me, do help me!

You don't have half such a hard time as I do, said Jo. How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you're ready to fly out the window or cry?

If you loved me, Jo, I should be a perfect saint, for you could make me anything you like.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts our fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children's little cares and joys, make them feel at home, and can hide wise lessons under pleasant plays, giving and receiving friendship in the sweetest way.

I want to tell; but some things even you couldn't forgive; and if you let go of me, I'm afraid I can't keep afloat.' 'Mothers can forgive anything!

I was wondering how you and Amy get on together.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes," said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.

If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them.

Los seres amados se muestran con frecuencia ciegos con respecto a un ser querido

If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. These children are wiser than we are, and I have no doubt the boy understands every word I have said to him. Now, Demi, tell me where you keep your mind.

For the time had come when they could talk together not only as father and daughter, but as man and woman, able and glad to serve each other with mutual sympathy as well as mutual love.

I never knew how good and generous and tender he was till now, for he lets me read his heart, and I find it full of noble impulses and hopes and purposes, and am so proud to know it's mine.

So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater.

Grief is the best opener of some hearts

Hay muchas Beths en el mundo, tímidas y apocadas, refugiadas en su rincón hasta que alguien las necesita.

She's right; the lad is lonely. I'll see what these little girls can do for him, thought Mr. Laurence, as he looked and listened. He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him; and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.

Amo-te desde que te conheço, Jo; não o consigo evitar, tens sido tão boa para mim. Tentei demonstrar-to, mas não me deixaste; tens mesmo de ouvir e dar-me uma resposta, pois não posso continuar assim durante mais tempo.

Kate looked surprised, but said nothing and stood looking at the fire as if turning the matter over in her mind and trying to answer the question she was too polite to ask—how could they have a grandmother and know so little about her?

Perhaps not, I've heard that the people who love best are often blindest to such things.

She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her; the knowledge that her mother had a fault like hers, and tried to mend it.

Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves.