Quotes About Understanding

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.

Those with whom one disagrees should not be regarded as enemies but rather as people who's views deserve careful examination and may shed light on one's own.

You forget I know you as my own son, Michael. The eyes that follow Lady Beatrix are not those of a man who stalks his prey—at least, not for the killing.

Seek the still of prayer that you may know yourself and make order of what is required of you.

I learned long ago, Livvy, that a wife must love her husband's dreams as much as she loves him. Because the two are inseparable. If a wife can't embrace the desires of her husband's heart, he will never become the man he could have been, if only she had.

Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them—and accept them—for who they were.

Molly?" "Yes?" He turned back and reached out as though to touch her, then stopped. "I'll wait. And when the time comes, whenever you're ready—if you're ever ready—all you have to do is . . ." He didn't complete the sentence. He didn't have to.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

She didn't ask where they were going. She just leaned back and stared up into the dark night sky. He would have been hard-pressed to explain it to anyone, but he'd never felt so much like a man as he did when he was with her. He wanted to protect her, provide for her, make her laugh, love her in every way he could. And he liked that she didn't have to fill every moment with words too.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Even if a river flows with milk, a dog can take in only one lick at a time

Don't step in the river without knowing its depth

Known is a drop, unknown is an Ocean

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

One now accomplished goal is the brainwashing of society into believing that because of the color of their skin or their gender, or their sexual preference, some in our "multicultural society" can never be understood by others, making judgment and punishment inappropriate.

The truth was, most people craved connection.

Having someone ask you how you were, who you were, as if they genuinely wanted to know. That meant something to people.

There's more to life than you can see. Your sight is limited.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them