Quotes About Understanding

Be aware: When we understand the structures of thought, we ask important questions implied by these structures.

Sometimes it takes a loss before we can understand what it means to be found.

Philemon, verse 6, "I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.

Proverbs 3:5 says that if we trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding, and in all our ways ac–Shepherd_ knowledge him, he will direct our paths.

Mothers are strong enough to let their daughters find out who they really are, and daughters are stong enough to realize that mistakes or no, every mother has done the best she can ... and if she's lucky, her own daughter will one day give her the same gift of understanding.

Em's the first woman I've met who seems to be...well, the answer.' 'Answer to what?' He shrugged. 'All the questions, I suppose.' Fay looked blank. 'The questions you ask yourself at 4:00am... All the questions you'll ever ask yourself at 4:00am

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Honey, God made us all with special needs. Some are simply more apparent than others.

The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid.

Because sometimes you need to start at the beginning in order to make sense of the end. *

The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid. There is as much to be learned from the spaces between, the empty lines, as there is from the words on the page. I

We mothers have to be part sleuth, I realized.

The thing we are trying to say is in the language of leaves.

She didn't forgive him, not then. Not really until years later when she realized how men were so influenced by their peers and governments. This was something Ruth, a woman who could stand alone in the world, would never understand.

Those who loved Ruth--so many--touched her hand, her shoulder, held her lightly, but no one could read the world inside other human bones. They could touch the skin and not feel the grief and pain it held only a skin's-width away.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Let me get this straight," Eli said, as if trying to be calm even though I could tell he was upset. "Instead of returning to your own body, you swapped with my sister?" "Yes." "So while I was waiting for you to wake up, holding your hand and saying...well, things I would never say to my sister...it was her and not you?" "Um...yeah.

unless you've walked in another person's skin, you don't know what he's put up with, what he's gone through

When adults ignore their children's feelings, children come to believe their feelings are not important. When we repeatedly threaten or punish children for a display of emotion, children learn that emotions are dangerous things that need to be held inside and hidden—an invitation to later depression or rage.

We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.

But...that doesn't make any sense...!' 'It does if you're a goat.

I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we can see things differently. But I had no words, and I had nobody. - 153

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.