Quotes About Understanding

The point is, parent, you don't have to react to everything.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Your child needs not only your attention but also a relationship with you.

Couples who work together learn how to take stress not as a personal attack but as a challenge they can take on together. The key to growth and enrichment in marriage is in discovering ways to convey, "I understand how you feel and I'm going to do my best to meet your needs. I love you, and I'll be around forever.

Everything is more effective when it's done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.

mid-1950s, when Americans underwent an incredible transformation in how they understood the role of religion in public

history that seeks to exalt a nation's strengths without examining its shortcomings, that values feeling good over thinking hard, that embraces simplistic celebration over complex understanding, isn't history; it's propaganda.

I hated the Naga, you know." Garul nodded. "I once hated humans, too. Then I learned to understand them instead." That made sense to Owen. "It's hard to hate what you understand.

today. Stephanie hadn't known how to respond to it.

She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn't mean anything.

Inofrmation without application is useless

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

A soulmate is someone that you are willing to share your soul with.

You can spend your life looking for knowledge while all along it was right in front of you.

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.

To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling.

even though I actually did not like to be touched, I just let it happen. I allowed it. It was fine.

This was how you did it, how you raised children. You built them a house that was impervious to danger and then you gave them every single thing that they could ever want, no matter how impossible. You read to them at night. Why couldn't people figure this out?

He would teach himself to dislike what he actually liked, to approve of what he did not totally understand, in the hopes that he would come out the other side with something that resembled inspiration, something that would make him more famous than Chris Burden or even Hobart Waxman.

couldn't tell if it was love, but I also knew that I was no real judge of love, having never experienced it or even witnessed it a single time in my life.

Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art.

To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling.

I wondered if that was kind of the purpose of art, maybe, to make you see things that you knew but couldn't say out loud.

Did Dolezal really fool those black folks around her? I have a strange feeling she didn't, that many simply humored her. You have to do this with white people, from time to time.