Quotes About Understanding

Looking isn't the same as seeing

Miles was the best friend Logan had ever had. It helped that neither of them had had a best friend before.

We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?

One of the most generous gifts you can give your child is to study her temperament, and once you've learned it, work to accept it.

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No. But I think maybe I, too, know what it means to be alone. To be misjudged.

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

Don't make me guess your intentions, I might conclude it's your intention to leave me clueless and frustrated

Feelings do not require justification.

Things may need to be said, but not necessarily heard by the other.

Tengo muy claro que los hombres tienen una responsabilidad, y que es necesario que se den cuenta de que en cuestiones sexuales no estamos en igualdad de condiciones. Y no solo por fisiología. Por psicología también, porque las chicas todavía se sienten presionadas a hacer cosas que no quieren, y los chicos, los hombres, entienden muy poco cómo lo viven ellas

Há coisas que talvez tenham de ser verbalizadas, mas não necessariamente ouvidas pelo outro. P102

there is something about understanding that comforts me, even if I don't like what I understand.

Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it.

She waited for one of them to say something that might facilitate a more in-depth conversation, something that might bridge the distance between them; but neither man spoke.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

There'd been so many things she'd thought she'd known when in fact she'd barely understood the smallest thing.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate.

God will teach you to the point where you don't have to ask any more questions.

Grasshoppers don't plant."

Happiness is when someone laughs with you and doesn't laugh at you.

Love is not blind, it is not deaf and it is not cheap.