Quotes About Understanding

Imagine the relief of finding out that one is not the one one thought one was

Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.

She thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.

an abundance of facts is not necessarily an abundance of knowledge.

I mean it, it's another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you'll get nowhere as a detective. She's everybody's conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity's backbone. Throughout history, she's gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

Ich wusste nicht, wie das Licht verschwindet, obwohl ich eine ganze Stunde hinsah. Er sagte, es gäbe Sachen, die eben nicht in die Augen gehen.

Czyta?, LESEN, i ?y?, LEBEN, ró?ni? si? tylko jedn? liter?.

Ik weet niet hoe woorden dat tot stand brengen, dat de zin opglinstert en veel meer zegt dan de inhoud van zijn woorden.

Para hablar no tengo la cabeza despejada, si no, le preguntaría qué hay que ver en mí.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion—and fear considers this very important—does it want to know how things stand with me.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.

I'm often told that those who don't like themselves set high expectations for themselves, but ? think people who say that don't really understand how painful it is.

He was the only human being who could appreciate and understand who She truly was. She refused to let go of such perfection.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The field has eyes, the wood has ears. I want to see, to be silent and listen

Forgive and Forget. Something every person should do. Why have an enemy when you can have a Best Friend !

It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

Makenna's "He does" clashed with Cogswhallop's "She does." They looked at each other, and she saw the love in his eyes -- but he saw the truth in hers. "He does," she told the Hierarch firmly.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. —Niccolò Machiavelli

Instinct's not a superpower. It's made of experience and memory and belief.

My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.

By making eye-contact, getting down to your child's level, offering a touch, or using a tone of your voice that conveys a desire to genuinely connect, you disarm yourself. You make it possible to reach your child more deeply and truly move forward together.