Quotes About Understanding

She will want to know all you do," said the old man. "All that has happened to you during the day. Every word of it. She will want to know what you are thinking about, why you smile suddenly, why you are looking sad." "That is love!" cried Alan.

Senility is best described in the old tongue, duine le Dia, for in that phrase is a kinder, more understanding view of the condition. Its literal meaning is "a person of God," for only the person's maker can now understand him.

There is a price to be paid for everything, and it is a good idea to find out that price before you make the agreement.

Know a man by his metaphors.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

He will say less than he means, and conceal more than he reveals.

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

Men and men, men and women, whatever the permutation, in the end one partner usually feels more than the other and that partner usually suffers for it.

It never paid to underestimate children.

He knew there were some who said that those who kept dogs had to resign themselves to their eventual loss because of the animals' relatively short lives. The trick—if "trick" was the right word—was to learn to love the spirit of the animal, and to recognize that it transferred itself from dog to

it had been a small consecration, a minor epiphany, and no more

borderline simpleton.

And even if what he learned did not aid him in his investigation, and he succeeded only in relieving her of its weight, this would be sufficient, because sometimes the service asked of us is just to listen.

Of their friendship, Montaigne wrote: 'If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.' Louis touched his fingers to the page. Yes , he thought. Yes .

discovered that silence made a lot of people uneasy, and they would often say something to break it, thus revealing themselves in the process.

reading was a solitary pursuit. Oh, one could read in the same room as someone else, or beside them in bed at night, but it rather presumed that an agreement had been reached about such matters, and the couple in question consisted of a pair of like-minded souls.

Ears were blocked to reason, and eyes blocked to goodness.

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.

Nothing is against nature!" he retorted. "That's the mistake people make; and it causes endless unhappiness.

Jesus on the cross was not declaring that God had abandoned Him. He was stepping into the full psychological calamity of our fallenness … He was asking your question. Feeling exactly what you feel when you believe you've been abandoned by a Father who never abandons anybody.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.