Quotes About Understanding

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

There is no time of life past learning something.

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

Anyway, The Snack really helps me to understand that death is a part of our life. There is life, and there is darkness, always together.

Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.