Quotes About Understanding

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of the things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

I missed her then, but it was an odd sort of missing because by then I knew the meaning of forever.

Confucius-says

We're here, you know ... All the time. You can talk to us and think about us. It doesn't have to be sad or scary.

There were also the Masters of Arcane Knowledge. Everyone begrudged their presence among the gifteds. These were the kids that could break down an engine and build it back again - no diagrams or instructions needed. They understood things in a real, not theoretical, way. They seemed not to care about their grades.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

All womens not alike, Tobias, she say. Believe it or not. Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world.

Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk about love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan.

I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.

Life is very different when you have a good friend. I've seen people without special friends, close friends. Other men, especially. For some reason men don't often make and keep friends. This is a real tragedy, I think, because in a way, without a tight male friend, you never really are able to see yourself.

As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks.

There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness that comes because of that.