Quotes About Understanding

A dog's life is a speeded-up version of your own. After a while, you can hardly bear to be a witness.

He said oh honey. how long have you known? Meaning, how long have you been alone, knowing?

If Marianne had noticed.

When a man shares with a woman his marital/domestic problems, the kind of problems that seem never to be solved but only to morph into yet more complicated problems, like hair snarls proliferating, sympathy flows in one direction only. By instinct a woman knows it's naive to expect the flow to reverse.

Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.

She was murmuring, "It's all right, dear, it will be all right, I love you." For that was the one thing she knew, amid all that she didn't.

En una familia, lo que no se dice es lo que se espera oír. Pero el ruido que hace una familia es para que no se oiga.

My mind rattled on fast as a machine sometimes, ran its own way without my participation. So I'd know the answer to the algebra problem but not the steps to that answer. Or what a poem like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken meant but not ho to explain it.

Though words sometimes puzzled Alma, she never looked up any word in any dictionary; a word was like a pebble to be turned briefly in the hand, and tossed away, with no expectation that it would be encountered again.

papà ci amava. Ci ama. Diceva che, se non ci avesse voluto bene, non ci avrebbe punite. Riesco a capirlo, davvero. Però è un modo di pensare malato, e sbagliato".

Es curioso, siempre sabes más de lo que dices. Quiero decir, cualquier persona. Lo que dices siempre es menos de lo que sabes.

The striking thing about self-knowledge is that it may be lacking.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul-- Joyce Carole Oates

What saved us from becoming hard-nosed or callous was that we really liked each other, while remaining totally mystified by each other.

Friends. There's a loaded word for you. I know some people, when speaking of a particular relationship, may say "we're just friends," as if this were some lesser form of connection to that of lovers or so-called soul mates. But to me, there may be no bond that matters more, in the end, than friendship. True and enduring friendship. Alice

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other's needs.

Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you" (see Matt. 5:44).

I had an unconscious, vague sort of understanding that God loved me, but the love of God is meant to be a powerful force in our lives, one that will take us through even the most difficult trials into victory.

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… 1 CORINTHIANS 14:33 KJV

For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:16

Forgive as often as you must and don't put limits on it.

God sees and understands what we do not see and understand. He asks us to put aside our natural tendencies to want to figure out what should happen in our lives and when it should happen. He also desires us to stop being frustrated because things do not go according to our plan, and instead to relax, enjoy the ride, and trust He is working everything out according to His timing and the wisdom of His plan.