Quotes About Understanding

Generally, Madame, the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.

How did two people move backward through time and untie a knot that had tangled through every moment of their lives?

Americans. They didn't listen.

mouth; Elsa understood. Saying these

Elsa had discovered within herself a nearly bottomless capacity for love.

Meredith wanted to reach out and help her, but she

I think it was Mother Teresa who said that loneliness is the worst kind of poverty

cantidad de veces que mamá tuvo que levantar la voz

There's no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different…all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move.

Why, of all the lessons she should have learned from her mother, had she held on to this most hurtful one?

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

You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

Ah. I should have known. You're one of us. … You're someone who finds herself in the pages,"…

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing. It is quite beyond me, in fact, why she became a librarian in the first place.

Do not be afraid to ask your questions. But you must always be sure your heart is open to hear the answers.

My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

One must never question God, Jerusza had always told her. It is our job on earth only to seek to understand him, never to doubt his will.

And isn't that the moral of the story anyhow? You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

Il semplice fatto che l'amore esista non significa che io sia capace di provarlo.

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

Yearning for a life you don't understand is like staring at the sun. Your foolishness will destroy you.

My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives.

Someone who sees her reflection in the words.

every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.