Quotes About Understanding

I don't believe in love, but I believe in you.

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.

Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.

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Dee understood now that real couples didn't have to ask each other to go together: they already were together.

She'd had a terrible time with his brothers' wives : seeing her with them was like watching someone pet a cat against its fur.

One by one the men made their positions known, some speaking, some giving the blanket sign of covering their shoulders when their feelings had been well expressed by another.

All work nourishes the soul of your creative imagination. And all work increases your understanding of your craft. Sometimes a work takes a flower, sometimes it merely enriches the soil. And sometimes the seed of an idea, long abandoned and even forgotten, emerges suddenly in a place where it was least expected. And sometimes the blooms that it produces are the most beautiful of al.

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

We Indians know about silence," he said. "We aren't afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words.

Traditionally, Indians did not carry on dialogues when discussing important matters. Rather, each person listened attentively until his or her turn came to speak, and then he or she rose and spoke without interruption about the heart of the matter under consideration.

the success of biblical interpretation depends a great deal on whether we want to listen to God or merely tell him what he ought to say. For it is only by listening to God - to what he says in all of Scripture, and through all avenues by which he might speak, such as the voices of the Spirit and of creation -that we can finally arrive at the best understanding of how the Spirit is directing us to love God and our neighbor.

You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.

When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

We shower so much love on babies and children,"she said. "But as we grow up, it stops. No one showers love on grown-ups. But I think we need more love as we get older, not less. Life gets harder, not easier, but we stop loving each other so much, just when we need love most.

You have to live in the grey, or you have no kindness in your heart.

Perhaps the death knell of love is not anger or even indifference; it's losing the desire to know more about your partner.

We shower so much love on babies and children," she said. "But as we grow up, it stops. No one showers love on grown-ups. But I think we need more love as we get older, not less. Life gets harder, not easier, but we stop loving each other so much, just when we need love most. I—" Her voice caught in her throat, but she took a big breath and kept going. "I need more love now that I'm so old. I need love.

It's discovered through these acts of love. If God is love, and I believe that to be true, then we learn about God when we learn about love. The first, and usually the last, classroom of love is the family. The

Kindness is not the same as niceness or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.