Quotes About Understanding

Friends can never be too early

Jess falls asleep with her head against Darcy's shoulder, and I see Mr. Hawthorne waggle his eyebrows at Mrs. Hawthorne, who smiles over at Mrs. Delaney. I guess I'm not the only one who's noticed what's going on.

Why is it that parents always want to know every detail about your boring day at school?

Football means soccer, squash is soda, bonkers is nuts—I'm going to need an interpreter or something.

don't like that man. I must get to know him better. —Abraham Lincoln

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. —Albus Dumbledore

Sometimes we don't understand the full picture of why we need to do what we feel led to do. Our job is simply to have the courage to honor what our soul is saying.

Like all creations, I have come to understand that the messages I received have their own path to follow, and their own timing in which they needed to be set free.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are. But

You can tell anytime,' Penn said, 'but once people know, they can never unknow.

You're too old to be open-minded and tolerant," said Rosie. "I'm too old not to be.

Feeling loved = being loved. That's all.

Tears crawled out of Claude's eyes and nose, and besides he was only five, but he tried to comfort his parents anyway. 'I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn't bleeding. Sad is okay.

You could sit down with another mom, even one halfway around the world whose life was very different from your own, and find easy conversation, shared spirit,

Ce anume ne lipse?te de la cei dragi pe care îi cunoa?tem atât de bine,încât am putea s? termin?m frazele în locul lor ?i s? gândim gândurile lor negândite?

Date someone who sleeps instead, someone who thinks slowly and deeply and talks in words that don't need to be memorized from flash cards.

firm believer in knowing people by knowing what they read, holding their favorite words in your mouth, running curious fingers along the spines of their books.

Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you know exactly what's happened. And also you have no idea.

One thing that is good about librarians is they listen to what you need and want and think of a way to help you which sometimes is by ignoring what you need and want. Maybe they do not have the book you requested because their library is nothing but leftovers. Or maybe what you requested is wrong-people often are, even smart people who read-but it is okay because librarians have witchlike librarian magic to pick the right book for you

I like labels because they mean organized and order and control and correct." "Sometimes they do. And sometimes they just give you the illusion of those things. Giving something a label and putting it in a box makes you feel like you've understood it and accounted for it and can keep track of it, and that's great for things like paperwork or books, but sometimes things get mislabeled or misfiled, and then they get misunderstood or misaccounted for.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

I was trapped in reality, and when the visionaries told me what was possible, I could not hear them.

Empathy connects us to another person's experience without judgment.