Quotes About Understanding

Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

Relax, she said. You will be wise. You're young. You can't have everything right away. When something simple and true takes you by surprise, it hits you in the stomach.

No lo sabes…? Pero acabas… acabas de gastarte cincuenta y cinco dólares en este libro. —Lo sé —respondiste—. No pasa nada. —Pero ¿no sabes por qué? —Para hacerte feliz —fue lo único que dijiste, y de repente, Ed, tus palabras me dejaron sin respiración.

Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up.

Ed, así éramos nosotros, Al y yo. Nunca lo entendiste y yo nunca te conté realmente cómo funcionaba. La madre de Al nos comparó una vez con un viejo matrimonio y se rió cuando Al dijo:Bueno, mamma, tú debes de saberlo.

You have to love the whole person, if you are truly in love. If you are going to take a lifelong journey with somebody, you can't mind if the other person believes they are leaving for that journey an hour earlier than you, as long as truly, in the real world, you are both leaving at exactly the same time.

This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I know all these facts about you and there is no longer any use for them.

There are stories about people who have loved someone forever after laying eyes on them for a few minutes and then nevermore, but these stories have not happened to anyone we know. No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases

If you are going to take a lifelong journey with somebody, you can't mind if the other person believes they are leaving for that journey an hour earlier than you.

Nobody keeps score, because there's no sense in keeping track of what everyone is doing.

Love-is this something we can learn to do again, and if so, when will that time arrive, even on a bad day? When do you know when something is becoming something that changes you?

There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

people who read literary fiction (as opposed to popular fiction or nonfiction) were better able to detect another person's emotions, and the theory proposed was that literary fiction engages the reader in a process of decoding the characters' thoughts and motives in a way that popular fiction and nonfiction, being less complex, do not.

a close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.