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Quotes About Understanding

Why do we love each other? Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it.
~ Unknown
W]e have a tendency to judge others according to ourselves.
~ Jean Cocteau
Sentir antes de comprender.
~ Jean Cocteau
Jeannot la bêtise des amoureux est immense, végétale, animale, astrale. Que faire? Comment te faire comprendre que je n'existe plus en dehors de toi.
~ Jean Cocteau
Thus, love had taught her to decipher the mysteries of childhood.
~ Jean Cocteau
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.
~ Jean Ferris
Dans un roman tout s'explique, même le plus mystérieux, surtout le plus mystérieux; non seulement il s'éclaire, mais il éclaire tout le reste. Dans la vie de la route, le plus simple reste mystérieux.
~ Jean Giono
All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of two ways: You are dead or I am dead . If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died? And then she occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I will explain myself; but this will be to take the most useless, most superfluous precaution; for everything that I will tell you could only be understood by those who do not need to be told
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
That is truly the loss of innocence, Ayla, when we understand what we must do in order to live. That
~ Jean M. Auel
You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.
~ Jean M. Auel
Hablan con sombras en la lengua.
~ Jean M. Auel
It may be a stone you have never seen before or a root with a special shape that has meaning for you. You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.
~ Jean M. Auel
said. "Make Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Noria Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Make Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â She heaved a sob, wishing she knew the words to tell him what she wanted to say. "I know, Noria. I know," he said
~ Jean M. Auel
Sorry. That is courtesy, right? Custom? Jondalar, what good are words like sorry? It doesn't change anything, it doesn't make me feel any better." He pulled his hand through his hair. She was right. Whatever he had done—and he thought he knew what it was—being sorry didn't help.
~ Jean M. Auel
If there was reassurance in being looked at, it was not the same as being looked after—or being truly seen.
~ Unknown
I found everything perfectly clear, and I really understood absolutely nothing.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
A mo?e nikt nie rozumie w?asnej twarzy?
~ Jean Paul Sartre
To do?wiadczenie zawodowe: lekarze, ksi??a, urz?dnicy i oficerowie znaj? si? na cz?owieku tak, jakby go stworzyli.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Sizi sürükleyen dalgad?r,yaÅŸam bu; ne yarg?lanabilir, ne anla??labilir, b?rak?n gitsin demekten baÅŸka yapacak bir ÅŸey yok.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
~ Jean Rhys
Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.
~ Jean Rhys