Quotes About Understanding

Unless you find yourself in a book, you have a hard time finding anybody else.

No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.

Readers are made not born.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

I want to be violated by insight.

Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

Could you imagine a world where everyone is 'Blind'? i'm thinking we all need to try and see the world from the view of a blind man... then and only then, will the color of ones skin be completely irrelevant..

Because boys are boys, and books are books, and, in the end, it's best to have a little bit of both.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

As long as I Do Not Realize WHO I AM NOT, I will Never Realize WHO I AM.

As long as we Believe in Myth, we can never Realize the Truth.

People who don't understand want to know, but people who know, don't want to understand.

Religion is the Kindergarten to Spirituality. One cannot Realize God without Religion.

True Prayer is not just Talking to God But rather Listening to Him.

Those of us who have been with Jane the longest want to whisper to her, Look how that boy is seeing you. To show her how open he is to the possibility of who she might be, how attenuated to her gaps and omissions.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.

We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!

Delusion is so incredibly powerful, much more pervasive than most people know. As Voltaire quipped, "The only way to comprehend the mathematical concept of infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.