Quotes About Understanding

You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.

it´s just...today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy - Will

I love you,' I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.

I think... I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.

This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

Queres ser feliz? - Sim. Não. Não sei. Que tipo de pergunta é essa? - Apenas uma simples - disse ela - queres ser feliz? - Eu não... acho que não sei como. - Só tu podes aprender. - disse ela.

Maybe you and I have to learn how to live with what we saw. With what we know.

The sun flitered in through the small, dirty windows, catches his eyes. They are brown, ordinary, but the way he looks at me—no one has ever looked at me like he does. He looks at me like he sees something. Someone. Me. "All right," he says, and puts his hands behind his head. "Go ahead.

I see it in his eyes, he has eyes you can see everything in, and I say, "Morgan," my voice as quiet as the ghost I am supposed to be.

Tal vez tú y yo tenemos que aprender a vivir con lo que vimos. Con lo que sabemos.

Single women making their way to individual destinies-- who in the home circle understands them? If they try to share what they have found in their further reach, who wants it?

Man is, without doubt, the defacer, the destroyer. But spending at least the last three years in trying to understand the enemy has almost seduced me to his side.

I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young. And I certainly should not have had to learn it this way!

When you're a teacher, some students burst out at you immediately, most emerge gradually, and a few don't want you to see them at all.

I suspect I said nothing because I was doing what I have done most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves. I do this, I think, because it could be me a great deal of the time.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

Sarah Payne, the day she told us to go to the page without judgment, reminded us that we never knew, and never would know, what it would be like to understand another person fully.

To listen to a person is not passive.

But we're both old enough to know things now, and that's good." "What things?" "When to shut up, mainly.

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can't say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.

No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly, Tyler. We all do. Even Jesus wrestled with that. But I think - I think the ability to receive love is as important as the ability to give it. It's one and the same really.