Quotes About Understanding

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many

Acceptance asks only that you embrace what's true.

I want to see the contours of your second beating heart.

I was sexually assaulted at seventeen. I was naïve and I didn't understand it. Anxiety became a deep part of my life, and it almost pulled me under. Trudging onward was all I could do. I've made peace with it.

There is a world of people out there who will love you for who you are. A whole, vibrant, fucked-up, happy, conflicted and joyous mass of people.

Accounting for what happened in our childhoods and why and who our parents are and how they succeeded and failed us is the work we all do when we do the work of becoming whole, grown-up people.

I'd silently send my love to them across the universe in the way people have sent their silent love across the universe to the people they love throughout all time, and I would know in my heart that they had received it. I would be at peace.

I think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

True intimacy isn't a psychodrama. It isn't the "highest highs and lowest lows". It's communion and mellow compatibility. It's friendship and mutual respect.

But I want you to know that you don't need to tell me this to get me to love you. You don't have to be broken for me.

Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel.

Your voice was joy and pain, anger and forgiveness, love and heartache all wrapped up into one. I suppose that's what we all are. You helped me understand that.

Yes, I know. You don't understand—I love you because of what you did, not despite it.

Fabre believed that the methods of science must be consistent with our motives for knowing.

To know if only half; to love is the other half.

Allah is always merciful to men. It must be that he knows men are not as strong as women.

Only women think there is a reason to thank people if they listen to them.

One thing guys know is when to shut up.

Figuring out women is harder than topping a ManPro Quiz.

there are things some people can never understand.there's no point to telling them.

Actually the choice is simple. When your child decides to love a new person, you can either see it as a chance to hate some people - the person they choose and their families. However, you can also see it as a chance to love some more people. And since when did loving more become a bad thing?

losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart.

Girls never tell you anything straight out anyway. You have to interpolate and extrapolate their responses to figure out what's on their mind.

People argued less on a full stomach.