Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won't hurt them. But they're not scared for no reason.

People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective.

Questioned where it was hiding. Maybe it was because he

it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

There's no reception up there," Remy's father said at long last. "Because there are no cell towers." Remy wondered sometimes if the long pauses before answers were his father's attempt to get Remy to figure things out on his own. But he was never right at the edge of understanding,

Love explains a lot.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Grown-ups have it over you in sheer day-to-day life experience. I'll be the first to admit that we don't know everything, but you at least have to be open to the idea that we might know a few things you don't.

What do you think of them?" "They're fine. Why ask them to be shorter?

It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not." - Nathan

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

Whether they admit it to you, whether they admit it to themselves, people know where they stand with each other. Virginia

It's just communication with other humans, and I don't know why everyone is so afraid of it.

when a person is rude and abusive to me, it's not about me at all. They can say something terrible to me or about me, but they're revealing themselves, not me. It has nothing to do with me. They're just showing me the landscape on the inside of themselves as they project it out onto somebody else.

I wondered if a white person could ever comment on the minority experience and get it right.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I got that when a person is rude and abusive to me, it's not about me at all. They can say something terrible to me or about me, but they're revealing themselves, not me. It has nothing to do with me. They're just showing me the landscape on the inside of themselves as they project it out onto somebody else.

Most big life events are like that. You think they'll be emotionally one-sided, but when you actually get into them, it's always more complex." - Nathan

I just think it's odd how we parse out our empathy," he said. "Why we only have empathy for those who remind us most of ourselves.

I can't help wondering what the world would be like if our empathy muscle were a bit more developed.

The thing about a family is the love. The 'what kind?' and 'how will it work?' is nothing. That's just a thing you worry about before you learn that those details aren't what matter at all.

There are all manner of things that scare us at some point in our lives, but then later we find out they really never meant to hurt us anyway.

though he should gather the silence into his arms and apologize to it. She

Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don't belong. Chloe