Quotes About Understanding

Porque la característica esencial de lo que llamamos locura es la soledad, pero una soledad monumental. Una soledad tan grande que no cabe dentro de la palabra soledad y que uno no puede ni llegar a imaginar si no ha estado ahí. Es sentir que te has desconectado del mundo, que no te van a poder entender, que no tienes #Palabras para expresarte.

Tan difícil es de entender que, cuando se te ha ido alguien querido, lo que no te cabe en la cabeza es su imposible ausencia?

Uno sería infinitamente generoso con los muertos amados: pero claro, siempre es mucho más difícil ser generoso con los vivos.

La literatura nos hace formar parte del todo y, en el todo, el dolor individual parece que duele un poco menos.

Dicen que sólo necesitamos siete segundos para hacernos un primer bosquejo de la persona, y un minuto y medio para comunicarnos. Y una mierda. Ese es el tiempo que necesitamos para empezar a inventarnos al otro, en todo caso.

Las palabras son como peces abisales que sólo te enseñan un destello de escamas entre las aguas negras. Si se desenganchan del anzuelo, lo más probable es que no puedas volverlas a pescar. Son mañosas las palabras, y rebeldes, y huidizas. No les gusta ser domesticadas.

Elfrida, are you about to cry? - I might be. - Why? - Relief. ?

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

Loving a person, she [Rachael] had told herself, is not finding perfection, but forgiving faults. ['Someone To Trust']

I can't deal with hidden undertows or unspoken feelings.

Bernard Shaw said that youth is wasted on the young. It's only when you get to be old that you begin to understand what he was talking

Eliot said nothing, just nodded his

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

Kabullenmenin hayat?n öÄŸrettiÄŸi en a??r ve en zor ders olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordu.

Birinin ac?s?, diÄŸerinin kazanc?d?r, ha, Efendim? Bu gerçeÄŸi biliriz deÄŸil mi?

There are those who would counter with the notion that women aren't shallow since we're appreciative of what a man

He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

Solving problems together? Yes, indeed. You and your child are going to be allies, not adversaries. Partners, not enemies.

If you respond to a child who's having difficulty putting his emotions aside so as to think through solutions by imposing your will more intensively and "teaching him who's the boss," you probably won't help him manage his emotions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

It's really easy to be patient and sympathetic with someone when it's theoretical, or only for a little while. It's a lot harder to deal with someone's craziness when it's constant. . . .

Holy Scripture is progressive revelation—from partial to full, but never from error to truth.