Quotes About Understanding

Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human.

Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

People came to understand one another not by words but by what had happened between them. It couldn't be said, in so many words.

Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

Trying relentlessly to make you love me, but I don't want the love—I quite prefer the quest for it. The challenge. I am always disappointed with someone who loves me—how perfect can he be if he can't see through me?

Don't offer me love I seek disinterest and denial Tenderness makes my skin crawl Understanding is vile When you offer me happiness You offer too much My ideal is a long-lasting longing For someone whom I cannot quite touch

I loved him and he allowed it

I can't remember events from yesterday, or earlier tonight when I put my credit cards away for safekeeping. Now for the life of me I don't know precisely what safekeeping is.

Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't dress it up, don't expect talk to, either.

How they treat you is not necessarily who you are.

She: One of us is boring. He: Why do you say that? She: Because … well, we're just sitting here, not talking. He: What's wrong with that? She: Well, I don't know. Probably nothing—it's just that we don't need each other for it. He: For what? She: Being quiet.

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

He told her what was happening in the world that he belonged to and she visited.

Hate is a useless emotion.

Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see.

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

Know that I love you, that I always will love you no matter what choices you make, what paths you have chosen, and what paths you choose in the future.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara

Tell Me Whom You Love and I'll Tell You Who You Are

I know it's like meant to be and stuff, but I have to wait, cause to truly love someone, you have to work out the things that need to be - and you have to be ready to love them and they, you.

I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.

Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.

Booker T. once said, "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.