Quotes About Understanding

He loved her, yet knew he'd go to his grave without having any understanding of what went on inside her mind.

Hate the sin, not the sinner.

The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me. Everyone means something to someone.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that simple is not exactly the same as easy.

Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.

Having an interpreter doesn't mean you are getting the right information. Immediately it should raise the red flag.

The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another.

Look." Joe's voice was cajoling, almost begging, yet Skip knew

You cannot change what you cannot make sense of.

She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it hardly helped him. For all he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

Trust is a thing you know without words.

With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these." "Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.

But there are two sides to every fight. It starts from something small, a chance remark, a gesture made lightly. It grows from there. Both sides can be unjust. Both can be cruel.

There is learning in everything

He had always understood me better, without words. So I laid my hand on my heart, held it there for a moment, and then moved it over and touched my palm against his breast.

Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings.

Ana wished very much that she could discuss this with Faolan

Shouts and blows may have won arguments for you in the past, fellow. They are pointless in the current situation.

To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean "to think", but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one's consciousness into it.

di lahat ng payo makakabuti para sa 'tin dahil di man lahat ng naranasan ng iba..ay kagaya ng eksaktong nararanasan ng bawat isa.

Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children—some day they grow up.