Quotes About Understanding

26. Es bueno usar el tiempo en la gente.

Perhaps I couldn't tickle the inside of his ear, but I could reach the mysterious curves of his mind.

And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.

Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? And what if that person happens to be your mother?

It's okay. Don't push her, Sharon.

between the two men, as if they

Je ne souhaite pas, comme certaines ou certains, juger l'Islam à partir de mon occidentalocentrisme, ni énoncer à partir de mes valeurs personnelles des oukases à prétention universelle; devant certains traitements imposés aux femmes du monde arabe, je ne souhait pas hurler avec les loups. Je veux seulement comprendre.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

I understand Jesus perfectly," Mama tells me. "I just don't understand Christians, and I don't think he would either.

When people think there's only one right place to stand, they say foolish things like 'You're doing it wrong.' All you have to do is go to the other side and look again at how many ways there are to see the world.

When people began singing again, instead of trying to see the woman, Chiaretta looked at the air in front of the voice, trying to understand how something invisible could be so beautiful.

it; she must find out all she could.

But sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.

sometimes it doesn't matter whether someone is right or wrong. Sometimes you just have to love them when they need you.

I'd never listened so carefully to something I didn't want to hear.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

A Man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he love you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do. (42)

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.