Quotes About Understanding

The soul sees what the eye cannot

You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.

I'm only judging by his letters, but are you sure you want to marry a fellow who uses six words where one would do?

My trouble has always been," Mrs. Channing said, "that I can see both sides of every question." "Trouble? That is a gift, Madame; a very unusual gift." Mrs. Channing rose and prepared to follow her into lunch. "I don't think it's a gift," she said. "If it is, it came from a very wicked fairy.

And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?

Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.

I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

It's been my experience," he continued, "that when you're with the right people, you feel more like yourself than ever. There's a happiness, and a feeling of coming alive to yourself and the other person, that's like nothing else.

A propósito de ello escribió Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: «Cada hombre tiene algún pesar secreto, el cual el mundo no conoce; y a menudo tildamos a un hombre de frío cuando tan sólo está triste».

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

I'll not listen to reason…. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

you're disappointed that he doesn't get it, though you're not surprised. He's never really gotten you. He loves you and takes care of you, and you thought that would be enough.

I could imagine it, I thought, but all I could ever do was imagine. I couldn't know. I couldn't feel that.

You guys writing on Bosnia don't hear our questions, because you don't speak our language.

When you come near to something that can't be made right, you have to approach it with love, and not vengeance. Vengeance is how we got into this in the first place.

I watched and I learned. There is tumult, there is aggravation. There is love. For a mother, there is no such thing as excess.

His expression was suddenly serious as the tip of his finger traced her lips. "I never understood why history is filled with stories of men who waged wars over a woman they loved. There are many women in the world, and it was beyond my grasp what made one woman special enough to go to such extremes." He pressed a kiss to her forehead. "Now I understand.

What had happened to that love? Nothing, really, love was love.

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'".

There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but she existed, and he would run into her, and with time I would accept it.

Friendship can only survive on a sound basis of ignorance.

Some people believe that [when] we choose our friends, we choose the people we care about, because they remind us of ourselves

Life causes estrangement enough—why do we add to it out of misplaced pride?

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.