Quotes About Understanding

The boys crept to her side at early dark to sit around her, mournful, with their heads bowed down like they wished they knew how to pray the oldest prayers and pray her well. Harold held a cool cloth to her swollen eye. Sonny made fists and said, 'What was the fight about?' 'Me bein' me I guess.' 'How many was it?' 'A few.' 'Tell us the names. For when we grow up.

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.

Listen with your heart. You will understand.

How do you spell love? You don't spell it. You feel it.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

What you are to me has no ending, unless you can understand what forever and infinity really mean.

Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation.

"Trying" is the biggest mistake you can make early on in a relationship. It sets a false expectation that you will eventually tire of.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

I think it's best to sit down and talk about what every family member wants out of the vacation so that everyone is really happy at the end of the day. If you can find a place that covers everyone's needs, and it's all under one roof, that's even better.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Typically, people don't overcome their fears because the fears are nebulous and undefined.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

That's when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you – the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you – because that is what people are supposed to do.

Best friend: someone you can only stay mad at for so long because you have important things to talk about.

Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's being separated & nothing changes.

"Though there is some distance between us, I appreciate every effort that you do for me."

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

If she happens to fall, I'll be there to laugh at first and then help her up afterwards.