Quotes About Understanding

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife.

He can't know what it was like, not the first time, not the last. He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him. Whether she thought he'd failed her, or whether she wanted him to let her go. This, more than anything, makes him feel that she is gone.

Now it was her turn to study Mrs. Richardson, as if the key to understanding her were coded into her face.

Margaret did not question; she understood this, how slippery and elastic time was in the fact of your child, how it seemed to move not in a line but in endless loops, circling back again and again, overwriting itself.

And then, as if the tears are telescopes, she begins to see more clearly:

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you." She eyed him suddenly fierce. "Kind of like you did with me. They think they know all about you. Except you're never who they think you are.

She looked at him fiercely, almost a glare, and Moody saw that her eyes, which he'd thought were hazel, were a deep jade green. At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.

At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn't know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces.

Later, slowly, they will piece together other things that have never been said.

What a pity men didn't gossip about their wives the way women did about their husbands, then they would soon learn that their own wife wasn't the only one with shortcomings….

Who shall compass or fathom God's thought profound? We can but praise, for we may not understand; But there's no more beautiful riddle the whole world round Than is hid in this heap of dust I hold in my hand.

Celya Bowers

Polemik zekalar?n sava??ym??. Zekalar birbiriyle sava?maz.

Seni kay?tl? ?artl? sevdi?imi söylüyorsun. Han?mefendi, türk dilinde iddian?z?n cevab?, 'halt ediyorsunuz'dur.

Yabanc? dil, dü?ünceyi tan?tan ve tatt?ran bir anahtard?r, bir "medeniyet anahtar?".

Türk insan?n? Türk insan?ndan ay?ran bütün duvarlar? y?kmak isterdim.

??in en korkunç yan?, çocuklar?n neden aç kald?klar?n?, niçin yiyecek bulamad?klar?n? anlayamamas?.

Tarih çark? gittikçe daha h?zl? dönüyor. Çocuklar?m?z her ?eyi kendileri anlay?p ö?renmek, kendi ak?llar?yla yapmak, bizim i?lerimizi üstlenmek zorunda kalacaklar. Oysa dü?ünmek her zaman ac? veren a??r bir i?tir. Onun için onlar?n hayat? bizimkine göre daha zor olacakt?r...

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.