Quotes About Understanding

Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like...a feeling.

It's extremely difficult to get things in perspective when you rub up against them every day.

God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.

Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other harshly and were cold of heart.

One thing I have discovered since I've been ill, though, is that nobody ever knows anybody, and maybe least of all the people who are closest to them. Sort of a business of not being able to see the trees for the woods. We all live in isolated prisons of our own bodies and there's no real contact with any other human being. That's what sex is, in a way, isn't it, a desperate striving for contact? With which cheerful Thought for Today, I will bid you good afternoon.

people don't have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.

To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive

Do you like Stevie?' 'No, but he's good-looking.' 'And is Philip O'Brien good-looking?' 'No, but he's keen on you.' Clio had the world sorted out.

She described the work as Girl Friday; it was, in fact, Dogsbody, which scanned perfectly, and after all, words mean what you want them to mean. These

Emmet, I love you. I'm so blind and stupid, thank you for waiting for me, for understanding.

Birisini sevince onu de?i?tirmeye kalkmak yanl?? bir ?eydi.

would want if she were able to speak, Nora

Now that her childbearing years were over he had discovered that he wanted to be a father. And he expected her to understand all this. Possibly even be glad for him. Louis Gray must be a man without any sensitivity at all. He must be lacking in any real brain as well. Perhaps he was a bit simple. Maybe that lopsided smile and those deep eyes were empty, meaningless things, not an indication of a loving soul.

Mary Paula had severe morning sickness and was in no mood to console him. He had to be particularly consolatory to her.

She had a lot of experience bringing up younger brothers herself but had never been close to a little girl. The

them?" Ria hoped that Danny

But whatever sameness I've noted in my relationships with women is not the sameness of Woman, and certainly not the sameness of parts. Rather, it is the shared, crushing understanding of what it means to live in a patriarchy.

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love you.

Annie] "I just wondered … is slowly a good thing?" "Is slowly …" His fingers relaxed and she felt rather than saw his smile. He brushed his fingertips across her lips, then sank back to his pillow. "Oh yes, Annie love. Slowly is a very good thing." "Oh, my.

knowledge is power.

Stop searching yourself trying to understand why someone else treated you the way they did. The answer is not inside you; it's inside them, out of reach.

They could talk about shallow things without judgment and deep things without self-consciousness.