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Quotes About Understanding

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
~ Caroline Norton
We have been friends together in sunshine and shade.
~ Caroline Sheridan Norton
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
~ Caroline Stevermer
I have a very close relationship with my parents.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
Depression can be a very disturbing and frightening experience. People often feel that depression descends upon them from nowhere and feel powerless to understand or change how they are feeling. It can physical changes such as tiredness and loss of appetite but depresson is not primarily a physical problem. Depression is routed in people's past experiences; their thoughts and feelings about themselves and the world; and the ways they have learned to cope.
~ Carolyn Ainscough
I didn't ask you if you loved him. I asked you if you liked him. Love is important but like is the more important. If you don't like him, all the love in the world can't make you have a good relationship.
~ Carolyn Brown
It's humbling to feel so loved that someone don't want to bring you heartache, isn't it?
~ Carolyn Brown
God gave us minds and he means for us to use them. We need to know God better, so we won't be trying to trust a stranger when the lights go out and we're in a spiritual free-fall.
~ Carolyn Custis James
Women in the Bible are wise teachers. They offer up a boatload of profound theology intended to enrich the whole church's understanding of who God is, what it means to walk with him, and how we are to build his kingdom in this broken world.
~ Carolyn Custis James
It was as if he had stood me squarely before the world, removed the blindfold, and ordered me to open my eyes.
~ Carolyn Forché
That from which these things are born That by which they live That to which they return at death Try to know that
~ Carolyn Forché
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
~ Carolyn Forché
Home is where they have to accept you.
~ Carolyn Haines
He nodded. A curt movement of his head, and she was, for no reason at all, convinced that the man before her was not in dislike of her but simply a man who did not have words come easily to him because he'd grown up alone. She thought of him as a boy. Lonely here, with no father and no mother to hold him, only the servants for company, and Killhope as an unceasing reminder of the centuries of duty and responsibility that were his. Her heart twisted up.
~ Carolyn Jewel
If he spoke, there was no possible outcome but another disastrous exchange of words at cross-purposes. The chances of him finding both the right words and the right inflection were, in his experience with her thus far, vanishingly small. He would either growl at her, or tell her what was in his heart.
~ Carolyn Jewel
He fell quiet, but she understood this was his way. He was not a talkative man. Once, she'd imagined him sitting alone in his house, a monster ready to devour anyone who came near. What she imagined now was a man who had both his rank and his natural reticence working against him. She smiled at him. If he continued in his gruff ways the rest of his life, she would defend him to anyone. Anyone.
~ Carolyn Jewel
Your father and I will deal with him." "What are you going to do?" I say. "We will talk to him." I snort. "Yeah, that's going to work.
~ Carolyn MacCullough
I guess quotes make me feel more connected.
~ Carolyn Mackler
Teach me to feel another's woe To hide the fault I see That mercy I to others shew That mercy shew to me.95 –1787
~ Carolyn Marvin
Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.
~ Carolyn Myss
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
And sitting here now, with all of Lexy's dreams in my lap, I realize there are things about her I will never know. It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst