Quotes About Understanding

It's not hard to care about people who are like you...Your own family, and people like them. But...we have to always make the extra effort with people who aren't like us. To care about them and listen to them, especially if they'e different from us. Because that's one of the things that makes us human. It's something we can do that other animals can't.

Sometimes the other guys teased [Patrick] about having a girl friend, but it didn't seem to bother him. It didn't bother me, either. If those guys couldn't tell the difference between a friend and a girlfriend—well, that made them too dense to be worth worrying about.

T)he path to wisdom lies not in certainty, but in trying to understand.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked. Salva shook his head. "Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

Learning about our horses is learning about ourselves.

When you're living through an experience, it's hard to imagine yourself outside it. But when you revisit it in a Write, you see yourself in a fuller context, which gives you information you didn't have before

The reach of imperialism into 'our heads' challenges those who belong to colonized communities to understand how this occurred, partly because we perceive a need to decolonize our minds, to recover ourselves, to claim a space in which to develop a sense of authentic humanity.

One day many years later you will ask her if she wishes you were straight. She will hesitate, then say,"I love you just the way you are." You will never forget that.

Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

This love is not a melting of self, a softened apprehension of the other. The loved one need not meet my gaze, acknowledge my presence, approve or know of me.

Go on rummaging, brushing off dust, though you may find later that it was the dust you wanted.

You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him.

Treat mathematics as a language, not as a vocation.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

My father had the rare ability to make others feel as though they were the one and only. That they were seen, heard, chosen. He would take you by the hand and say, Come with me, and for a brief or a long moment you might think you were the first person he has ever said this to. That it was you and him against the world.

She didn't understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me. To be saved by her love. No more half-truths. No more omissions.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.