Quotes About Understanding

I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer's fury had cooled?

I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.

No one understands me! This phrase is part of me, and as unlikely as it may seem, there's a kernel of truth in it. Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. If only I had someone who took my feelings seriously. Alas, I haven't' yet found that person, so the search must go on.

Maar één ding weet ik nu en dat is dit: je leert de mensen pas goed kennen als je een keer echte ruzie met ze gemaakt hebt. Pas dan kun je hun karakter beoordelen.

La carta è più paziente degli uomini.

Paper is more patient than people.

unless I should ever find a real friend

Love, what is love?

Liebe, was ist Liebe? Ich glaube, daß Liebe etwas ist, was sich eigentlich nicht in Worte fassen lässt. (S.197)

To love someone, I have to admire and respect them.

I have the strong feeling that Peter and I aren't really as different as we may seem on the surface, and I'll explain why: neither Peter nor I have a mother.

it's better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart

parecer no me falta nada, salvo la amiga del alma. Con

Why do grownups quarrel so easily, so much, and over the most idiotic things? Up till now I thought that only children squabbled and that wore off as you grew up.

It's all right for me to have boys as friends.

Don't condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!

I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Você só conhece mesmo uma pessoa quando tem com ela uma briga. Só então pode avaliar seu verdadeiro caráter!

It's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more to each other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than to shout them from the rooftops.

you can only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

As Eva grew older, she did a lot of good things for those around her. At the age of sixteen (four years after meeting the elf), she was generally acknowledged to be a friendly, gentle and helpful girl. Every time she did something good, she felt happy and warm inside, and she gradually came to understand what the elf had meant by "the song in her heart.

Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you