Quotes About Understanding

The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.

Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Sometimes words are not enough.

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense.

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don't tell them they aren't. Sit with them and have a drink.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.