Quotes About Understanding

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

She had a talent for looking at a person with no expression - you filled in whatever you felt guiltiest about.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

They moved in dance steps too intricate for the noninitiated eye to imitate or understand. Clearly they were of one soul. Handsome, rangy, wildly various, they were bound in total loyalty, not by oath, but by the simple, unquestioning belongingness of part of one organism.

The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person.

Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger or harrass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. I have to heal any way I can. You will stop asking questions and you will not give me any worry. You will not go after him. You will not terrify me, Joe. I've had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. You will not add to my sorrows. You will not be part of this.

You cannot feel time grind against you. Time is nothing but everything, not the seconds, minutes, hours, days, years. Yet this substanceless substance, this bending and shaping, this warping, this is the way we understand our world.

It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.

She saw qualities in him still invisible to the world at large.

I hope you will not be tempted into litigation. Life is too short for that."25

Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

Rockefeller's partners "seldom knew what he was thinking but he always knew what we were thinking.

seemed quite content to sit in silence sometimes and not try to entertain each other.

He later exhibited an unacknowledged dread of death, and Eliza was perhaps the first to intuit it.

Sensitive to her delicate psychological state, he sent her gently whimsical letters.

I suppose there may be something in what you say, though I had never thought of it in that way before.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it.

Let him take his time, with gentle management. Make him feel that he is giving it, not that it is being taken from him with violence.

Though he was exacting and did not pay high salaries, he never yelled at his employees and dealt with them in a patient, considerate manner, occasionally inviting them to sit by the fire for a chat.

I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way," Aunt Margaret said. "Your momma knows that." But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn't be expressed.