Quotes About Understanding

Labeling a group a gang is thus as much a matter of selecting the right tools for countering it as it is one of understanding the organization itself.

No one who truly understands grace will tell a person their sin is beyond it.

He taught her something new about friendship: it picked right back up where you'd left off, as if you hadn't been apart at all.

Apparently you couldn't stop loving some people, or needing their love, even when you knew better.

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.

the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.

Young has nothing to do with love. A woman can be a girl and still know her own heart.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing." "I'm supposed to watch her make a mistake?" "Sometimes, yes. And then you stand by to pick up the pieces.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

Fear is smart until…" He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. "Until what?" He looked back at her. "Until you realize you're afraid of the wrong thing.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

I don't know why it's so easy for me to forget how much I love her. We start fighting, and…" "Sisters.

I think, as this war goes on, we will all have to look more deeply. These questions are not about them, but about us.

You know what I love most about you, Leni Allbright?" "What?" "Everything.

How could any woman know her own story until she knew her mother's?

it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

If he loved you guys, he wouldn't hurt you." He made it sound so simple, as if it were a mathematical equation. But the connection between pain and love wasn't linear. It was a web.

Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.

As a child, I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissable.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

What most people overlook or seem unable to understand is the fact that I regard the psyche as real.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable – perhaps everything.